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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <11349@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Oct 89 13:23:21 GMT
References: <11318@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14090@lanl.gov> <1989Oct19.225004.20120@twwells.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1989Oct19.225004.20120@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
-Perhaps this silly argument will go away when the participants
-realize that they are arguing over the difference between
-implementation *dependent* and implementation-*defined*? The
-former is descriptive and has no special meaning; the latter is a
-special term defined in the standard.

I've known that all along -- I was waiting for Giles to discover it.
However, given his reason postings it's not clear he even lives in
the same universe as the rest of us.