Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!rbutterworth
From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: retiring gets(3)
Message-ID: <22449@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 88 19:28:17 GMT
References: <5450@saturn.ucsc.edu> <225800095@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <4881@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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In article <4881@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick) writes:
> In article <1704@solo9.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
> :\I don't understand how you can get something like
> :\    gets(3);
> :\past a compiler. Isn't 'gets' supposed to take a char * argument,
> :\not an int literal?
> :
> :You should have crossposted to rec.humor.funny!
> 
> I don't see what's so funny about it.  It's a very legitimate question if you
> don't have much experience with UNIX.

And don't forget, this is "comp.lang.c".
I don't see anything about unix there.
There are a lot of people that use C that don't use unix.
The name(section) convention is strictly a unix documentation
convention and has nothing to do with the c language or its
documentation on other systems.