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From: STROBL%DBNGMD21.BITNET@wiscvm.wis (Wolfgang Strobl 49+228303223)
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Subject: Re: reserved word entry
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 16:24:12 EDT
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> In article <402@root44.co.uk>, jgh@root.co.uk (Jeremy G Harris) writes:
> > Does anybody know what the K&R-listed reserved word 'entry' was for?
>
> Actually, when I saw it, ti looked like a means for an alternate entry point
> into a routine. (Yes, I know this violates block structuring...but it's
> [somewhat widely] used on 370-architecture mainframes.)
>
I would like to mention that multiple entry points are an useful feature
for implementing abstract datatypes. One implements each access function
to a datatype as an entry to the module which implements that datatype.
In this respect the concept may violate "block structuring", but it can
be used quite "structured", I think.

In short:  I would like to have it back ;-).

Wolfgang Strobl, STROBL@DBNGMD21.BITNET