Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: new do-while syntax
Message-ID: <11249@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 20 Dec 88 21:36:29 GMT
References: <3049@arcturus> <864@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU> <1716@buengc.BU.EDU> <8562@alice.UUCP> <1724@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <1724@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <8562@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>>As I said before, it's way too late to get anything like this into C now.
>
>But wait!  We could form a comittee, couldn't we?  We could be the
>abCDE, and meet and review and vote and review and meet and field input
>from the input field and meet, review, vote...

(Yes, I realize you were being sarcastic.  Nevertheless...)

Andrew is partially correct: it's way too late to get any fantastic new
features into C88 (__STDC__==1).  However, it is not too soon to be thinking
about what should go into C99 (__STDC__==2).  The correct procedure for such
future enhancements is to get them added as experimental extensions to
existing C compilers, so that the next ANSI C committee will have "existing
practice" to point to.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint