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From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standardization questions (cpp mostly)
Message-ID: <6078@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 11:48:16 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  9 11:48:16 1984
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Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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Summary: 

Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim):
>I think the standard allows this warning but does not demand it.
>This is probably good policy for all warnings, and will encourage
>implementors to provide the warnings to be competitive.

This is a great discovery!  Make everything in the language optional;
implementors will provide it to be competitive!

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	Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
	guido@mcvax.UUCP

"You're right.  But you're boring."