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Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no? 
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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:38:39 -0400
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| Ah - I see! It hadn't realised that the scope rules now included
| that sort of nesting. When did that happen? 

Never, it's a totally nonstandard gnu extension. :)

It's darn annoying that the actual C standard isn't freely available,
the way the corresponding Ada and Common Lisp standards are.