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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 'C' style etc...
Message-ID: <5670@well.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 00:02:35 GMT
References: <8647@eddie.MIT.EDU> <893@nuchat.UUCP> <8449@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1813@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: :noitazinagrO
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Keywords: K&R, nonstandard constructs, multi-char char constsants, hashing
Summary: ha ha, hee hee

In article <1813@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <8449@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, doug@eris.UUCP writes:
>> In article <893@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> >			case 'REXX':
>> 
>> This is bad style...it is not guaranteed to work, [ ... ]
>
>Every compiler I've hit with this so far has worked just fine. [ ... ]
>Hey! X3J11! Here's something that should be in the standard, and that has
>prior art, and is useful. How about it?
>		^^^^^^^^^
	From what I've heard of the ANSI committee's activities so far,
doesn't this condition preclude it from consideration for inclusion into the
"standard"?

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