[PATCH 06/32] man/ncurses.3x: Recast.

[G. Branden Robinson]

Try to make it clearer that (1) it's not ncurses's argument checking
that is a source of unportability and that (2) applications should be
doing their own sanity checking if they want to work well elsewhere.
---
 man/ncurses.3x | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/ncurses.3x b/man/ncurses.3x
index 458f4eb11..2eccbb34c 100644
--- a/man/ncurses.3x
+++ b/man/ncurses.3x
@@ -1965,11 +1965,10 @@ .SS "Error Checking"
 This is done primarily to guard against programmer error.
 The standard interface does not provide a way for the library
 to tell an application which of several possible errors occurred.
-Relying on this
-(or some other)
-extension adversely affects the portability of
-.I curses
-applications.
+An application that relies on
+.I \%ncurses
+to check its function parameters for validity limits its portability and
+robustness.
 .SS "Padding Differences"
 In historical
 .I curses
-- 
2.30.2

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