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Re: the "const" qualifier

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From: Maarten Litmaath
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1989 19:00
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gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
\...  As it is, we were changing the wording about this stuff up to
\practically the last minute before printing the final draft, [...]

Wouldn't it have been beautiful, if X3J11 had been given another year...

\Given your propensity for grumbling about the standardization process,
\I'm not sure I should.

Thanks you did it anyway!
Of course I've been wrong sometimes, but there ARE things which were
handled rather in a rush... (You said so yourself.)
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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
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Subject: Re: the "const" qualifier
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Date: 19 Oct 89 19:00:48 GMT
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