On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 01:11, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:33:20PM -0400, Srinivasan Krishnan wrote:
>
> > > Though apparently C99 makes the differences between pointers and
> > > arrays more explicit.
> >
> > K & R zindabad!
>
> Errr ... why's that?
>
K & R syntax (first edition):
int somefunc()
char *param1;
int param2;
{....}
Don't know how many people on the list have used the original K & R
syntax, before C was ever looked at by a standards committee, but it is
what I cut my teeth on, back in the days when SCO Xenix/286 ruled and
M$'s C compiler was 16 bit (I started with Version 4, IIRC).
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