Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!jimad
From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Bogus pure macro (was: Re: #defines....)
Message-ID: <55819@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 90 19:14:20 GMT
References: <688@dyndata.UUCP> <7050024@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <7050024@hpcupt1.HP.COM> jamiller@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Jim Miller) writes:

>By the way folks, does ARM stand for "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual",
>and if so why isn't it ACRM or AC++RM or TACRM or . . . ?  Anyway,
>references to ARM confused me for a while, and it might others, it's not
>(yet) as common as K&R.

I think this is a valid complaint, so I suggest we refer to the Ellis and
Stroustrup book as "E&S," which makes a good analogy to "K&R", and not
refer to is as "ARM", which could cause confusion with other annotated
reference manuals.