Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!watmath!datanguay
From: datanguay@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Adrien Tanguay)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: noalias (was: Re: the "const" qualifier)
Message-ID: <30577@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 Oct 89 15:25:05 GMT
References: <12239@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <11301@smoke.BRL.MIL> <3728@solo10.cs.vu.nl> <11320@smoke.BRL.MIL> <742@ccssrv.UUCP> <1989Oct19.162849.20265@utzoo.uucp> <11351@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989Oct22.002400.24104@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: datanguay@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Adrien Tanguay)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 13

In article <1989Oct22.002400.24104@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>"Success excuses many things."  Unless the wording revisions since the
>third public review have botched something -- I'd be a bit happier if
>I didn't get the impression that considerable further work was done on what
>was supposed to be a finished product -- the end product is reasonably good.

You can breathe easy on that account. The changes I've noticed between the
October and December 88 drafts resulted in a very noticeable improvement
in the quality of the technical writing. It's interesting to leaf through
a bunch of drafts to see the evolution of some passages, from wording that
leaves you thinking "Huh?" to something that actually makes sense.

David Tanguay