Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!rbutterworth
From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Clarification needed on Pointers/Arrays
Message-ID: <23971@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 89 15:28:34 GMT
References: <1436@etive.ed.ac.uk> <889@acf3.NYU.EDU> <11840@haddock.ima.isc.com> <11914@haddock.ima.isc.com>
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In article <11914@haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
> I understand that array
> copy was not added at the same time only because they couldn't find a clean
> way to fit it into the existing language.  The invention of prototypes did
> provide a (relatively) clean path, but unfortunately X3J11 didn't take it.

That's a bit of an understatement.
Not only didn't they take the path,
they demolished it so that no one else could ever take it in the future.
I've never heard a good explaination of why they thought it necessary
to take this action though.