Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: parsing the format string at compile time...
Message-ID: <1989Oct20.181039.21245@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 89 18:10:39 GMT

In article <990@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Rephrasing:
>
>     If traditional C did allow this, it would not be traditional C.
>     The traditional C compiler knows nothing about any functions,
>     including I/O.

More accurate rephrasing:

	If traditional C did allow this, it would not be what I think
	of as traditional C, therefore I'm sure it wasn't allowed, even 
	though the documentation actually was silent on the matter.
	The traditional C compiler I use knows nothing about any functions,
	therefore no such compiler does.
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