Hi Branden, On 8/23/22 00:08, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Alex,At 2022-08-22T20:18:38+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:Also, I'd keep the space, even if only for being able to use standard tools like perror(3), or common tools like the <err.h> functions.Maybe I'm having a senior moment but I don't get what this has to do with groff? groff rolls its own diagnostic functions; the closest it gets to anything like perror() is strerror().
Being compatible doesn't mean you use, but that you can, depending on what happens in the next centuries.
I basically mean that the GNU standards in general (not in the specific case of groff) should make it easy to use standard tools (because why would a standard favor rolling your own stuff? NIH syndrome and yada yada). So if all programs de facto use a space, maybe the GNU standards are modified to use a space, and other programs that don't roll their own, can simply use standard tools.
Cheers, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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