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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <4672@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 89 21:18:34 GMT
References: <11388@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14110@lanl.gov> <2446@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
Followup-To: comp.lang.c
Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng.
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In article <2446@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> feg@clyde.ATT.COM writes:
>In article <14110@lanl.gov>, jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>> From article <11388@smoke.BRL.MIL>, by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn):
>> > One can learn to exploit them (or, in your case, perhaps, simply
>> > to deal with them), but discussion about whether what is, should
>> > be, are a waste of time.
>> 
>> Why?  Is C set in concrete?  What about C++ ???   How about (C++)++ ?
>> Why are you so defensive about possible change - maybe even improvement?
>
>Hey! Maybe it's time to talk about adding pointers again. (;-)

I've even got the semantics worked out.  ( A :-) for effect, and
a :-| because it's _absolutely_true_)

				--Blair
				  "It's on a post-it note
				   ...SOMEwhere around here..."