Re: gets() and getchar

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 00:34

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In <9508211033.aa04645@kewszeg.UUCP> halasz@kewszeg.norden1.com writes:

>halasz@caip.rutgers.edu:
>: What is wrong with endouing "gets" with a limit?
>
>In article <412n2q$ka4@kruuna.helsinki.fi>, wirzeniu@cc.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>: Then it isn't compatible with the old gets and will break software.  Not good.
>: Reusing names for new purposes is not a good idea.
>
>There alreddie are special functions with optional arguments ....

Not in the C standard library.  There is no way to declare such a
function in C (the variadic approach doesn't work here).

Dan
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