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- From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Struct hack (was: Re: Is this ANSI?)
- Message-ID: <24274@alice.att.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 22:51:33 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24274
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- In article <9232902.26984@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
- > ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:
-
- > >... to convince me
- > >that it's legal, you'd have to find language in the standard that allows
- > >it.
-
- > Sure, but to convince me that it's illegal, you'd have to find language
- > in the standard that disallows it :-)
-
- And so on.
-
- Mark Brader pointed out that there had already been a discussion of
- this in comp.std.c, which I don't read, and which concluded that I
- was mistaken about interpreting the Standard.
-
- At the same time, more or less, I asked Tom Plum, who is a member of
- the C committee, whether this issue had been discussed there. His
- response: it has, and he agrees with me, for exactly the reasons I
- gave -- and I hadn't told him in advance what my opinion was.
-
- So there you have it. The net reaches one conclusion, the C committee
- reaches a different one. Mark and I both think it's a simple matter,
- but reach opposite conclusions.
-
- I guess it's not as simple as I thought, but I'm willing to defer to
- the C committee on this one, since they evidently agree with me :-)
- --
- --Andrew Koenig
- ark@europa.att.com
-