Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!kddlab!titcca!sragwa!wsgw!socslgw!diamond From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: fgetpos, fsetpos, and ANSIness in general Message-ID: <10952@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> Date: 11 Oct 89 06:07:07 GMT References: <11244@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond) Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan Lines: 29 In article otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: >>and there is a real danger of creeping Pascalism In article <11244@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >I don't know what "Pascalism" is supposed to consist of. Practically all >Pascal-inspired proposals for extensions or changes to C were rejected. Some of these ugly useless characteristics crept into C before ANSI, but here are some abominable examples of Pascalism (:-I irony). - typedef - enum - union - separate namespace for members of each struct/union - function prototypes - strict typechecking of function pointers -- Norman Diamond, Sony Corp. (diamond%ws.sony.junet@uunet.uu.net seems to work) The above opinions are inherited by your machine's init process (pid 1), after being disowned and orphaned. However, if you see this at Waterloo or Anterior, then their administrators must have approved of these opinions.