Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: noalias comments to X3J11
Message-ID: <422@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 88 04:47:39 GMT
References: <7753@alice.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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Summary: When Dennis Ritchie speaks...

In article <7753@alice.UUCP>, dmr@alice.UUCP (Dennis Ritchie) writes:
> 4.  What to do?
> 
>      Noalias must go.  This is non-negotiable.
> 
>      It must not be reworded, reformulated or reinvented.
> The draft's description is badly flawed, but that is not the
> problem.  The concept is wrong from start to finish.  It
> negates every brave promise X3J11 ever made about codifying
> existing practices, preserving the existing body of code,
> and keeping (dare I say it?) `the spirit of C.'

Now >>this<< is a man who does not mince his words.

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