[Python-Dev] Re: Assign to errno allowed?

[François Pinard]

[Greg Ewing]

>> #ifdef ...WINCE...
>             ^^^^^
>
> I wonder if Microsoft foresaw that abbreviation when
> they chose the name CE...

Speaking of, for many GNU projects, we needed a pre-processor symbol to
represent DJGPP and other ports to MS-DOS and Windows, so someone (most
probably me) took `DOS' and `WIN' and concatenated them, yielding:

    #if DOSWIN
     ...

It went for a few years.  One day, we were asked by the FSF to avoid this
symbol, as it suggested that DOS may win in some way.  At the time, this
surely meant a lot of places to change, I do not remember if we complied.
The fact is that I never had such a pun in head when I made the symbol...

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard