Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: ANSI draft interpretation questions Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 90 20:29:25 GMT References: <21623@mimsy.umd.edu> <11879@smoke.BRL.MIL> <21675@mimsy.umd.edu> <11897@smoke.BRL.MIL> <21690@mimsy.umd.edu> <11907@smoke.BRL.MIL> <15618@haddock.ima.isc.com> <15620@haddock.ima.isc.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 15 In-reply-to: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com's message of 11 Jan 90 19:07:56 GMT In article <15620@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: | So it seems that the forces in favor of minimal pushback felt so strongly | about it that they were even willing to leave the input stream in an unknown | shift state! The ungetc wars primarily came before multibyte chars were added to the language, so it may have been overlooked, instead of agreeing to leave the input stream that way. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so