Re: call to revolt

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From: Norman Diamond
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 04:04

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In article <998@baby.and.nl> jos@and.nl (J. Horsmeier) writes:
>And I won't die either ...

Glad to hear it.

>I don't want to make a thread out of this, but I won't change my opinion
>about the `you get what you deserve' philosophy. 
>I like it, if I deserve non-portability, I want to get non-portability. 

OK, you asked for non-portability, you got non-portability, and you say
you wanted to get non-portability.  So why are you complaining here?
Your code works on your old compiler, and either it won't port to your
new ANSI-conformant compiler or else it will port with a diagnostic
message.  You got your non-portability.
--
Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.
Permission is granted to feel this signature, but not to look at it.

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From: diamond@jit533.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: call to revolt
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Date: 28 Jun 91 04:04:20 GMT
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