Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: $ in identifiers -- poll Message-ID: <4843@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Dec-84 19:55:26 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4843 Posted: Sat Dec 29 19:55:26 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Dec-84 19:55:26 EST References: <534@vu44.UUCP>, <441@ukma.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 15 > ... However entry is not in the standard as > a reserved word (this was as of Oct. 17). So it would > have to be added. > > I have never heard of a C compiler that uses it. Are there > any? Actually, "put back" is more accurate than "added". It has been a "reserved for future use" keyword in C for a long time, but the ANSI committee decided (in my opinion, correctly) that it did not seem to have a future and thus could be deleted. As far as I know, nobody has ever done anything with it. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry