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In article <9232902.26984@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
> ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:

> >... to convince me
> >that it's legal, you'd have to find language in the standard that allows
> >it.

> Sure, but to convince me that it's illegal, you'd have to find language
> in the standard that disallows it :-)

And so on.

Mark Brader pointed out that there had already been a discussion of
this in comp.std.c, which I don't read, and which concluded that I
was mistaken about interpreting the Standard.

At the same time, more or less, I asked Tom Plum, who is a member of
the C committee, whether this issue had been discussed there.  His
response: it has, and he agrees with me, for exactly the reasons I
gave -- and I hadn't told him in advance what my opinion was.

So there you have it.  The net reaches one conclusion, the C committee
reaches a different one.  Mark and I both think it's a simple matter,
but reach opposite conclusions.

I guess it's not as simple as I thought, but I'm willing to defer to
the C committee on this one, since they evidently agree with me :-)
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com