Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: want to know Message-ID: <1989Aug17.162846.21900@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <8487@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <2980@solo9.cs.vu.nl> <182@sunquest.UUCP> <14269@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1496@l.cc.purdue.edu> <15373@rphroy.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 16:28:46 GMT In article <15373@rphroy.UUCP> tkacik@rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik) writes: >The pANS C got rid of the still born keyword 'entry'. >Maybe it had no meaning, or was to mean something completely different, >but my interpretation of it was to give the entry point into the program, >if you did not like main. Rather more likely is that it was meant to be similar to ENTRY in PL/I (and FORTRAN, I think -- my memory is dim), providing for multiple entry points into individual functions. Ugh. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu