Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!chinet!dag
From: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (So-Called) ANSI C
Message-ID: <2076@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 16:54:31 GMT
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Reply-To: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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Summary: Topic misnamed.

This discussion is misnamed -- it should be "ANSI (So-Called) C".
If you view it as a new language, "ANSI C" could be the name of this
new language.  The standardization effort is definitly under the
offices of ANSI.

I am not taking a position on the relavence of the ANSI language
definition to the common subset of C implementations in use today.

About parens being honoured -- I'd suggest that a vendor may wish to
permit the user to relax paren grouping ala K&R with either a #pragma
or a compiler switch.  I'm not suggesting specific mechanics for this,
but other extensions/optimizations can be controlled in this manner to
provide a conforming compiler environment with non-portable extensions.
-- 
					Daniel A. Glasser
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