Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A bad design decision early on in ANSI C.
Message-ID: <1364@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 03:32:55 GMT
References: <1322@sugar.UUCP> <7573@alice.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: A weaker suggestion.

In article <7573@alice.UUCP>, ark@alice.UUCP writes:
> In article <1322@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP writes:
> > I would like to suggest removing a "feature" from 'C'.

> > Structure assignment/passing.

> That would break a lot of programs, including
> C programs generated by the C++ compiler.

Now *that's* a good reason. It would break programs. Always a good reason not
change something. I withdraw the request.

OK, how about this... either get lint to flag it, or have an option for
the compiler to flag it...

#pragma religion(on)
I still think that it's against the spirit of 'C' to allow for passing or
assignment of anything that's not a first-class object.
#pragma religion(off)

Yeh, Peter, what about function pointers?

Oh shut up.
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