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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: 4.2 extern a DISASTER
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 14:46:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 14:46:52 1985
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> Seriously, the ANSI standards document seems to be perpetuating
> the problem rather than getting to the bottom of it-namely 
> defining a syntatic construct which will allow the compiler
> to more easily distinguish between defining and referencing
> occurences for externs. ...

We do not want the ANSI committee being inventive; we want them to
standardize the language we've got, not invent a new one!  One can
argue that they have already gone too far in this direction.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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