gripes about error reporting

[Praveen Kumar]

>From: henry at utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)

>While not wanting to run down what Chris Torek has done, or discourage
>people from using it (*any* serious effort to do good error-handling is
>a win over most existing Unix programs!), it is most unfortunate that
>it uses the same name as the error() routine in Kernighan&Pike, but with
>a different and incompatible calling sequence and semantics.

Agreed, but Chris's code is better.  I mean we can't keep saying that
K&R are the Holy Stone Tablets anymore.  They don't even have typedefs
or enums in there.
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