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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (So-Called) ANSI C
Message-ID: <6996@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 8 Jan 88 08:46:18 GMT
References: <4668@pyr.gatech.EDU> <495@xyzzy.UUCP> <9930@mimsy.UUCP> <6970@brl-smoke.ARPA> <4735@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4735@pyr.gatech.EDU> roy@pyr.gatech.EDU (Roy Mongiovi) writes:
>While they're at it, why don't they fix up operator precedence and the
>stupid "=" versus "==" typo in if's.

Because that would invalidate mountains of existing source code,
unlike the things that X3J11 did fix in the language.

I don't know why you're complaining about things that you can ignore.