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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga,comp.lang.c
Subject: 'C' style etc...
Message-ID: <1813@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 02:29:14 GMT
References: <8647@eddie.MIT.EDU> <893@nuchat.UUCP> <8449@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
Lines: 17
Keywords: K&R, nonstandard constructs, multi-char char constsants, hashing
Summary: Whadda you know.
	 No long character constants.

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, according to K&R, and
> certainly does *not* work with many C compilers.

Whadda you know. Every compiler I've hit with this so far has worked just
fine. I just assumed that it was in K&R. After all, it makes perfect sense,
modulo byte ordering problems, so by the principle of least astonishment
it should be there.

Hey! X3J11! Here's something that should be in the standard, and that has
prior art, and is useful. How about it?
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