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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C idea: structure literals
Message-ID: <7415@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 4 Mar 88 13:17:34 GMT
References: <56@vsi.UUCP> <1988Mar3.183939.945@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: ANSI, structure literals

In article <1988Mar3.183939.945@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>There is also a more general problem.  To approximate the probable response
>of X3J11:  "Need not convincingly shown; existing constructs can be used to
>same effect; lack of implementation experience in C."

I think a good case could be made for some such facility.  Whether an
argument sufficient to convince X3J11 to change the proposed standard at
this late date could be found is the real question.  If the idea is sent
in as a public comment, it needs to have a convincing argument attached.