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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case
Message-ID: <13718@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Sep 90 02:23:09 GMT
References: <1990Aug30.164610.3519@zoo.toronto.edu> <13714@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1941@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
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In article <1941@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) writes:
>The Pascalisms were not removed.  Prototypes, pointers to array types,
>and the requirement to diagnose violations of syntax and constraints
>made it into the final edition.  There are probably others too.

I wouldn't call those Pascalisms.  Stricter typing as such might be
considered inspired by the Pascal school, but prototypes were I think
inspired by C++ existing practice (modified to grandfather in the old
C usage of empty parameter lists in declarations).  For the most part
the stricter typing rules, diagnostic requirements, etc. naturally
evolved as a side effect of trying to devise an enforceable standard.