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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.lang.c
Subject: Re: structured assembler (BASIC)  [Really: C builtin functions?]
Message-ID: <1354@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Apr-86 19:19:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: mmintl.1354
Posted: Wed Apr 30 19:19:36 1986
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In article <5341@alice.uUCp> ark@alice.UUCP writes:
>The C definition of "function" is not the same as the mathematical
>definition.  A C function is a part of a program.  A mathematical
>function is a set of ordered pairs that meet certain conditions.
>
>That said, note that sizeof(i) is syntactically a constant.  This
>would not be true if sizeof were a function.

Good grief!  I am getting very tired of this.  You can think of sizeof as
a function if you want to, and you can think of it as not being a function
if you want to.  For some purposes (I haven't noticed any purpose in the
discussion so far) one is more useful; for others, the other is.

Now will everybody please SHUT UP about the subject?

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108