Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mstan!amull
From: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?
Summary: Many members of this club.
Message-ID: <563@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 2 Dec 89 23:54:38 GMT
References: <2298@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <11715@smoke.BRL.MIL> <5486@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co. NY, NY
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In article <5486@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) writes:
> In article <11715@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>  >I'm POC for a zero-sized object special interest group,
>  >but frankly there has been little activity since the
>  >committee's consensus was clearly against such objects.
> 
> Wouldn't this kind of group, because of its purpose, have 
> zero members?  (Not counting the POC (which is, after all,
> just a pointer)   :-)

It would depend on how many APL programmers also program in C.
Almost all programmers with APL experience are quite interested
in empty arrays. There is a long, long litany of 'empty array'
jokes, like the following:



Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt