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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: commonly asked questions (or stated fallacies)
Message-ID: <13550@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 09:34:08 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <753@proxftl.UUCP> bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>Hey Chris, do you think we should combine our missives (mine is
><402@proxftl.UUCP>) into an article for news.announce.newusers?
>We might get it into the "most frequently asked questions"
>section under the title "NULL considered harmful!"
>
>:-) I think.

I have considered it myself.  (I decided that news.announce.newusers
really ought not to have many, if any, newsgroup-specific answers: it
would be better to post these periodically in the appropriate newsgroup.)

A `most frequently asked questions' for comp.lang.c would indeed be
useful.  The first problem is convincing someone to do it.  We are halfway
there: I am half convinced already....  

The second problem is a bit more serious.  Many of the topics need long
answers (`long' here means more than one paragraph of explanation).
Perhaps the solution is a series of periodic postings, one per topic.

So far the topics seem to be:

	NULL (why 0, why casts required)
	what does `dpANS' mean
	what is a function prototype
	qualifiers (const, volatile) and their syntax
	dynamic two (or more) dimensional arrays

(any others?)
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