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Article #6105Re: Mark Williams C
From: nevin.j.liber
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1989 21:26
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1989 21:26
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In article <10378@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: |Standard-conforming code is not expected to be rendered non-conforming |in the next revision of the C Standard. Any area where there was some |sentiment that it might was flagged as an "obsolescent feature" in the |current Standard, which should serve as sufficient warning to people |to avoid relying on their long-term stability. All other features |should remain in C "forever". Does this mean the ANS C v2 won't have any new keywords?? I doubt it. Yet adding new keywords has a possibility of breaking existing code. As a matter of fact, There is terribly little that can be added to C which will not break existing pANS C v1 code (offhand, the only thing I can think of is something on the order of allowing a comma after the last element in declarator list). Still, it will probably be 99% compatible. -- NEVIN ":-)" LIBER AT&T Bell Laboratories nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (312) 979-4751
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnewsc!nevin1 From: nevin1@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Mark Williams C Message-ID: <1188@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Date: 8 Jun 89 21:26:46 GMT References: <24094@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <431fba10.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP> <8137@boring.cwi.nl> <8530@chinet.chi.il.us> <13475@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1000@twwells.uucp> <13522@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1011@twwells.uucp> <8465@june.cs.washington.edu> <10334@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNE Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 18