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Article #6183Re: ANSI draft interpretation questions
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 20:19
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 20:19
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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! Or perhaps failed to consider the ramifications. This is more evidence in support of the position I espoused (that was not adopted), that (even in a so-called "multibyte" environment) characters should be handled everywhere as unanalyzable units, so that a text stream getc() would return one of them. Think how much simpler the spec would be (and how much better) if there was no need to be concerned about "shift states" within applications.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: ANSI draft interpretation questions Message-ID: <11938@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 12 Jan 90 20:19:56 GMT References: <21623@mimsy.umd.edu> <11879@smoke.BRL.MIL> <21675@mimsy.umd.edu> <11897@smoke.BRL.MIL> <21690@mimsy.umd.edu> <11907@smoke.BRL.MIL> <15618@haddock.ima.isc.com> <15620@haddock.ima.isc.com> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 13