Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> writes: > It does serve a useful purpose, though, which is why it has endured. > If you were to have a man page that said ‘Putc(3) returns …’ then the > automated tools (and web links) that find Putc.3 wouldn’t be able to since > it doesn’t exist. Moreover - if FreeBSD were written in Pascal, it might not matter, but in C, _exit(2) and _Exit(3) are two different functions. (I'm sure there are other examples without a leading underscore) (eww, starting a sentence with a non-alphabetic character would be even worse...) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Fri Mar 21 2014 - 23:51:48 UTC
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