Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI grammar questions
Message-ID: <467@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 17:18:40 GMT
References: <7938@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <179@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>: void static extern int auto volatile fn();
>
>Right. This is intentional. Believe it or not, there are situations
>where this flexibility is useful.

And those cases that are truly *illegal*, such as the one cited above,
can still be caught by the compiler even though they pass the grammar.