Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Declarations in switches, errors Message-ID: <11189@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 30 Sep 89 00:48:55 GMT References: <561@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11158@smoke.BRL.MIL> <637@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 6 In article <637@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >I have no strong feelings about whether it should or shouldn't work, but >it should be predictable. That's what standards are all about, right? The Standard specifies precisely what happens here. It is not implementation-dependent.