Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:13:14 -0700 From: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> Message-ID: <87fz7db6wl.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> | I'd prefer to conform to the current standard when it disagrees with | tradition, particularly when these are cases that don't really matter | for practical programs (only standards nerds like us will care about | them :-). If the standard actually says what you say (I don't have anything to do with it) then the standard is broken, and someone should file a defect report. This one isn't just of academic interest, there's lots of code that does stuff like printf("The date is: %.24s today\n", asctime(tm)); and expects that there cannot be a newline between the date and the word "today". This is not something to break, failing to adhere to the standard in a minor way is a trivial price to pay for this compatibility. This one is important. kre