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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Invoking pointers to functions (C sytle)
Message-ID: <14650@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 4 Dec 90 20:48:39 GMT
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In article <989@mwtech.UUCP> martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>Maybe Doug Gwyn knows the motivation why X3J11 decided that functions are
>called through pointers with the special rule that the type `function' in
>part of an expression automatically becomes `pointer to function'.

You don't have to ask me; the Rationale document explains the reasoning.


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