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When you're dumping loads of short, generic, common words into the global namespace (well ... the only namespace in C), it's nice to have them misspelled so use

When you're dumping loads of short, generic, common words into the global namespace (well ... the only namespace in C), it's nice to have them misspelled so user code is still free to use the real word.

guerrilla 5y ago
> well ... the only namespace in C Technically there are several namespaces since you can, for example, name a struct the name as its type.
- dhosek 5y ago
  After many years in Javaworld, seeing this sort of thing in C++ really freaked me out.