Re: Ancient history

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> So, why have strcat() at all?

It was in the legacy library which we standardized
into C89 (or into POSIX.1, depending on function).
Lots of things were too widely used not to specify
their interfaces, but in most cases the programmer
doesn't have to use them if they aren't quite what
he needs.
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:43:41 2005