Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!caen!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!jit533!diamond From: diamond@jit533.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: call to revolt Message-ID: <1991Jun28.040420.28730@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 28 Jun 91 04:04:20 GMT References: <992@baby.and.nl> <782@taumet.com> <998@baby.and.nl> Sender: usenet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: diamond@jit533.enet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 18 In article <998@baby.and.nl> jos@and.nl (J. Horsmeier) writes: >And I won't die either ... Glad to hear it. >I don't want to make a thread out of this, but I won't change my opinion >about the `you get what you deserve' philosophy. >I like it, if I deserve non-portability, I want to get non-portability. OK, you asked for non-portability, you got non-portability, and you say you wanted to get non-portability. So why are you complaining here? Your code works on your old compiler, and either it won't port to your new ANSI-conformant compiler or else it will port with a diagnostic message. You got your non-portability. -- Norman Diamond diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it. Permission is granted to feel this signature, but not to look at it.