URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68211>
Summary: [libgroff] accept "-" as synonym of "_" in device
and font description directive names
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Fri 03 Apr 2026 10:27:33 PM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Fri 03 Apr 2026 10:27:33 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
I'll never understand C programmers' lust for exporting that language's
identifier syntax everywhere they can.
Well, actually I do understand it.
In the 1980s, C was going to displace all other programming languages. C
hackers were going to rewrite the whole world in it and establish eternal
dominance.
Just like Java was in the 1990s/2000s.
And just like Rust (or Go) is today.
Anyway, device and font description files are in a simple, declarative
language. No one working with them should make any C-related assumptions.
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