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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Macro sustitution inside quotes
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Date: 11 Apr 90 01:12:12 GMT
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In article <1284@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes:

>>Why weren't the Reiser
>>conventions just formalised?  Oh no, that would be too easy.

In article <7722@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> jenkins@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Steve Jenkins) writes:

>It's even easier to read in K&R1 that at least one Reiser convention
>was dead wrong.

True.  But Reiser's inventions were easier to understand, easier to use,
easier to implement, and less surprising than ANSI's inventions.  ANSI
should have done less work.

-- 
Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC     diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com
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