Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: binary constants (??)
Keywords: macro, constant, binary
Message-ID: <961@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 89 18:14:10 GMT
References: <305@frf.omron.co.jp> <602@chem.ucsd.EDU> <7065@ficc.uu.net> <14941@bfmny0.UU.NET>
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In article <14941@bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
> I agree 0bNNNNN would have been nice, however, and I sure wish X3J11
> had taken time off from rabbinical hairsplitting to add it.  Ah well.

For the Nth time, X3J11 received hundreds, if not thousands, of
suggestions for nice little enhancements, none of which was
clearly superior to any other.  How were we to choose which to
add and which to leave out?  If we had adopted them all, C would
be bloated beyond recognition!  Our decision was to forget about
things that would be "nice" and concentrate instead on things
that were needed.
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