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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: comment style
Message-ID: <14906@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 20 Jan 91 08:43:04 GMT
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In article <18701:Jan1916:03:2691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>Why can't people get together here and discuss how (and if) to propose
>// to ANSI for the next revision of the standard?

Several points:

I understand that there is another newsgroup for such discussions.

People proposing // seem unaware that this has already been considered
and rejected for the C standard.  No arguments have been made that
would justify reopening the issue.

It will be several years before the ANSI C committee will be soliciting
public comment for the next revision of the C standard.  Thus this
newsgroup is not presently a useful place for such discussions.