Em Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:40:13PM +0000, Alan Cox escreveu:
> > BCPL was typeless, as was the successor B (between Bell Labs and GE we 
> 
> B isn't quite typeless. It has minimal inbuilt support for concepts like
> strings (although you can of course multiply a string by an array
> pointer ;))
> 
> It also had some elegances that C lost, notably 
> 
>       case 1..5:

Hey, the language we use, gcC has this too 8-)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] net-2.6.25]$ find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep 'case.\+\.\.' | 
wc -l
400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] net-2.6.25]$ find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep 'case.\+\.\.' | 
head
./kernel/signal.c:      default: /* this is just in case for now ... */
./kernel/audit.c:       case AUDIT_FIRST_USER_MSG ...  AUDIT_LAST_USER_MSG:
./kernel/audit.c:       case AUDIT_FIRST_USER_MSG2 ...  AUDIT_LAST_USER_MSG2:
./kernel/audit.c:       case AUDIT_FIRST_USER_MSG ...  AUDIT_LAST_USER_MSG:
./kernel/audit.c:       case AUDIT_FIRST_USER_MSG2 ...  AUDIT_LAST_USER_MSG2:
./kernel/timer.c:        * well, in that case 2.2.x was broken anyways...
./arch/frv/kernel/traps.c:      case TBR_TT_TRAP2 ... TBR_TT_TRAP126:
./arch/frv/kernel/ptrace.c:             case 0 ... PT__END - 1:
./arch/frv/kernel/ptrace.c:             case 0 ... PT__END-1:
./arch/frv/kernel/gdb-stub.c:                   case GDB_REG_GR(1) ...  
GDB_REG_GR(63):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] net-2.6.25]$

- Arnaldo
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