Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:33515 alt.religion.computers:2015 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!sharkey!amara!mcdaniel From: mcdaniel@adi.com (Tim McDaniel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,alt.religion.computers Subject: Re: Argument declaration style (Was: ANSI C prototypes) Message-ID: Date: 7 Nov 90 17:17:24 GMT References: <1990Nov2.030556.27759@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <3933.27353319@cc.helsinki.fi> <_1X6_32@xds13.ferranti.com> <3944.27367fb2@cc.helsinki.fi> <1990Nov06.233654.29974@dirtydog.ima.isc.com> Sender: news@adi.COM Followup-To: comp.lang.c Organization: Applied Dynamics International, Inc.; Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Lines: 16 In-reply-to: karl@ima.isc.com's message of 6 Nov 90 23:36:54 GMT Even with prototypes with one argument per line, nobody's holding a gun to your head to prevent old-style arguments in a comment, if you want 'grep' to give you such information: void foo( /* x, y */ char *x, /* a frob string */ int y /* plugh value */ ) By the way: there are grep-like tools that give you a range of lines around each match. I don't recall the name, but I think comp.sources.{unix,misc} has had one. -- Tim McDaniel Applied Dynamics Int'l.; Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Work phone: +1 313 973 1300 Home phone: +1 313 677 4386 Internet: mcdaniel@adi.com UUCP: {uunet,sharkey}!amara!mcdaniel