Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: quotes inside #if 0
Message-ID: <1989Sep10.004441.23090@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2014@munnari.oz.au> <14512@haddock.ima.isc.com> <2023@munnari.oz.au> <1989Sep6.163608.20143@utzoo.uucp> <32896@ism780c.isc.com> <1989Sep8.154522.17068@utzoo.uucp> <14640@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 89 00:44:41 GMT

In article <14640@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (0000-Admin(0000)) writes:
>>You will be able to rely on the ANSI standard to answer *most* questions...
>
>So X3J11 spent all those years to be able to answer *most* questions
>about C.
>
>I thought we could already do that when they started.

The semantics of "most" have changed. :-)  It is undoubtedly true that the
standard will not answer all questions about the language.  However, it
gives single, specific, unambiguous answers to a far greater fraction of
the questions than any previous document.  Just *try* using K&R1 to
figure out the exact output from a tricky preprocessor example.
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