In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/17/2007
at 10:08 AM, Clem Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>What is needed is for ANSI to bite the bullet and fix the problem.
The use of trailing zero as a delimiter, like the confusion between
arrays and pointers, is omnipresent in the C world. I see no practical
way of getting rid of it without ditching most of the software written
in C. The best that you could do would be to introduce a new data type
and hope that people started using it, and I doubt that even that will
happen.
>So, total revamp,
Switch to PL/I?
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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