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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: integer *= float; Re: superstiti - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 21-Jan-84 05:45:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 21 05:45:28 1984
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I had no difficulty figuring out what the result *should* be.  The
C Programming Language seemed pretty clear, both in the text and
in the reference manual.  My confidence was a bit shaken when I
found the problem in the Ritchie compiler (which I sort of took
as a `standard'), but as Dennis Ritchie's article said, this was
an oversight that since has been corrected.

All in all, I find C to be internally consistant, such that a new
(to me) construct `looks right' or `looks wrong' without my having
to look in the reference manual and see.  That's the beauty of
`one-person' languages, as opposed to committee efforts.  Warts
and all, at least it's only one person's viewpoint to get used to.


		-Ed Hall
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