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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: CTRL(X) in ANSI standard (last one I hope)
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 08:34:46 EDT
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> Face it.  We are going to have to kill ourselves trying to work around
> the standard committee's refusal to let C work the way it has been working.

What "C"?  Using undocumented (indeed, unintended) features present
in one particular implementation is not the same as using C the way
it was defined; programmers who stuck to the rules should not have
problems with the ANSI addition of a more carefully designed way to
achieve substitution "within" strings.  The ANSI approach is designed
to support reasonable implementations other than the Reiser CPP,
including token-based CPPs, several of which exist and cannot readily
be made to support Resierisms.

C != BSD