Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site zehntel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!bobm From: bobm@zinfandel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Message-ID: <1481@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-May-84 04:25:25 EDT Article-I.D.: zehntel.1481 Posted: Wed May 16 04:25:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 17-May-84 03:57:47 EDT Sender: diana@zehntel.UUCP Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 24 #R:wivax:-1945700:zinfandel:14600018:177600:755 zinfandel!bobm May 14 23:18:00 1984 > 019 being equal to 17 decimal is an attribute of the VAX PCC lexer; > it is not a part of the C language definition. > > Without disregarding the many baroque qualities of the language > definition, one must realize that 'net.lang.c' is a newsgroup for > Talmudic dissection of Kernighan and Ritchie--weird questions are > expected. ANSI C should help clarify some of the ambiguities. > God help us when net.lang.ada really begins to be used! > -- > /Steve Dyer > decvax!bbncca!sdyer > sdyer@bbncca > /* ---------- */ K&R, Appendix A (the REAL reference; pay no attention to what it says in the chapters), Section 2.4.1, states, ".... The digits 8 and 9 have octal value 10 and 11 respectively...." Scholar of the Holy Law, Bob Miller