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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Noalias, prior art, parentheses, etc.
Message-ID: <3722@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 23 Dec 87 01:30:30 GMT
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I too am amazed and bugged by the committee engaging in language design
at this late date.  And calling "well, no C compiler ever did this, but
other people have done this kind of optimization" PRIOR ART is a real
good one.

I would like a survey of people who think that the new rules on parentheses
WILL cause them to have to change their compiler.  Doug claimed that
"only people who rearrange expressions will have to change".  I think
that's just about everybody except maybe Small-C.

Is it still possible to get on the ballotting committee for the final standard?
-- 
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  I forsee a day when there are two kinds of C compilers: standard ones and 
  useful ones ... just like Pascal and Fortran.  Are we making progress yet?
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