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Re: ANSI draft interpretation questions

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From: Michael Meissner
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 20:29
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In article <15620@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl
Heuer) writes:

| So it seems that the forces in favor of minimal pushback felt so strongly
| about it that they were even willing to leave the input stream in an unknown
| shift state!

The ungetc wars primarily came before multibyte chars were added to
the language, so it may have been overlooked, instead of agreeing to
leave the input stream that way.
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Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

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