[Python-Dev] Re: Assign to errno allowed? (original) (raw)

Fran�ois Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:45:48 -0400

[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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