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Article #8394'C' style etc...
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 02:29
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 02:29
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In article <8449@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, doug@eris.UUCP writes: > In article <893@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > > case 'REXX': > > This is bad style...it is not guaranteed to work, according to K&R, and > certainly does *not* work with many C compilers. Whadda you know. Every compiler I've hit with this so far has worked just fine. I just assumed that it was in K&R. After all, it makes perfect sense, modulo byte ordering problems, so by the principle of least astonishment it should be there. Hey! X3J11! Here's something that should be in the standard, and that has prior art, and is useful. How about it? -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga,comp.lang.c Subject: 'C' style etc... Message-ID: <1813@sugar.UUCP> Date: 11 Apr 88 02:29:14 GMT References: <8647@eddie.MIT.EDU> <893@nuchat.UUCP> <8449@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 17 Keywords: K&R, nonstandard constructs, multi-char char constsants, hashing Summary: Whadda you know. No long character constants.