Re: groff: conflict with prototype arg name in getopt.h

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

> I got the following response from Ulrich Drepper:
> 
>   That's crap.  We are not going to remove the parameter names.  This
>   is perfectly valid.

It's valid but generally considered bad practice because it increases
the chance of clashes with preprocessor macros.  Some libraries leave
the parameter names in place but comment them out.

    int foo(int /* bar */);

Personally, I think this is noisy and it's easiest to drop them all
together relying on the man page for documentation.


Ralph.