Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Bug in new K&R? Message-ID: <1988May12.163809.16998@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <7861@alice.UUCP>, <11552@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12 May 88 16:38:09 GMT > Hmmm. I thought ANSI was supposed to standardize the C language, not > fill the description with surprises ... Standards committees tend to do the latter even when they are only supposed to do the former. X3J11 has not been too bad about this, compared to some of the things that have happened in other standards efforts. -- NASA is to spaceflight as | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology the Post Office is to mail. | {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry