16 Sep
2004
16 Sep
'04
12:46 p.m.
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).