Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: the 'entry' reserved word Message-ID: <1643@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 10:04:50 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1643 Posted: Tue Nov 5 10:04:50 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 03:29:41 EST References: <2806@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) Distribution: na Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 16 Summary: Why is C C? In article <2806@brl-tgr.ARPA> bilbo.niket@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU (Niket K. Patwardhan) writes: > >BTW, original K&R C had "entry" defined as a keyword but never told you what >to do with it! Look it up, you will find it in the list of reserved keywords! I've been wondering about that. Seems to me (that's your cue that this is *opinion*) that it's more desirable to explicitly declare what can and cannot be seen outside a module. This could be done by marking as 'entry' each variable or function that can be externally referenced. Now, I'm not about to argue with the experience that went into the design of C, but I wonder if that wasn't what was originally considered. - Joel Plutchak {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster Can you say "opinion"? I *knew* you could!