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Article #8397Re: 'C' style etc...
From: Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 00:02
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 00:02
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In article <1813@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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, [ ... ]
>
>Every compiler I've hit with this so far has worked just fine. [ ... ]
>Hey! X3J11! Here's something that should be in the standard, and that has
>prior art, and is useful. How about it?
> ^^^^^^^^^
From what I've heard of the ANSI committee's activities so far,
doesn't this condition preclude it from consideration for inclusion into the
"standard"?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!well!ewhac From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: 'C' style etc... Message-ID: <5670@well.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 88 00:02:35 GMT References: <8647@eddie.MIT.EDU> <893@nuchat.UUCP> <8449@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1813@sugar.UUCP> Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) Organization: :noitazinagrO Lines: 19 Keywords: K&R, nonstandard constructs, multi-char char constsants, hashing Summary: ha ha, hee hee