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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question of style
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Date: 20 Dec 89 19:57:00 GMT
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Reply-To: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
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<I do wish,
<though, that someone could put a heuristic into the compiler so that it
<would be rejected if it is being used because it is 'flash' rather than
<because it wins something in the context. :-)

I'd put a compiler that did that in the category of 'smart-ass' rather
than 'smart'. :-) :-)