Re: [Bug-gnulib] getstr(), readline()

[Bruno Haible]

Jeff Bailey writes:
> Is it better to use a name like getdelim2, etc, or should we be really
> clear and call it gnulib_getstr.

Well, I made the change for two reasons:
  1) the collisions,
  2) the function names were not well chosen in the first place.

If you were to rename it to gnulib_getstr it would still suffer from 2).

> The names you've chosen sound like names that a maintainer might legitly
> choose if they were doing hackery in their tree.  I think prefixing with
> gnulib_ or gl_ or something like that would greatly reduce the chance of
> future clashes.

I'm not for such a prefix for two reasons:
  - gnulib is not a homogenous single library; it's more a set of
    modules that try to adhere to some common style.
  - Avoiding clashes so far in advance is probably not worth the effort.
    There are more important things.

Bruno