From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ... in the Kingdom of Sources
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:01:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309120301.h8C31Oj09744@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Sep 2003 08:34:03 GMT." <JOCdnUa8OfYQlsCiXTWJhA@comcast.com>
"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> writes:
>
> rob pike, esq. wrote:
> > there are two important differences. first is that (old) ANSI C
> > did not provide any formatted i/o for wchar_t, rendering them
> > essentially useless.
>
> The target clientele at the time insisted that they did not want
> us to specify more than the minimum necessary support, and that
> they would happily invoke the multibyte<->wide conversions when
> necessary. I remember Plauger relaying that promise. Not
> surprisingly, as soon as they got the capability they started
> pushing for the missing functions, which became part of a
> normative amendment to the C standard by 1995 (along with mode
> on the stream to control whether automatic conversion is or is
> not applied).
So you're admiting it's a hack?
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-12 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-05 11:54 David Presotto
2003-09-05 12:14 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-05 12:33 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-07 9:00 ` Aharon Robbins
2003-09-07 9:05 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-08 9:10 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-08 9:52 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-08 17:33 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-09 8:34 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-09 15:50 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-09 15:50 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-10 10:17 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-09-11 9:07 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-11 13:06 ` rog
2003-09-11 14:01 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-11 14:25 ` rog
2003-09-11 15:17 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-12 9:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-11 15:48 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-11 17:04 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-11 17:40 ` chris
2003-09-12 4:13 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-12 9:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-12 15:18 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-12 16:39 ` rog
2003-09-12 9:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-12 0:56 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-09-11 15:42 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-12 1:18 ` okamoto
2003-09-12 9:18 ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-09-12 9:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-09-15 8:27 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-12 3:53 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-12 3:01 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2003-09-07 13:48 ` Russ Cox
2003-09-07 15:45 ` David Presotto
2003-09-06 11:13 ` boyd, rounin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-05 12:04 David Presotto
2003-09-05 6:39 lucio
2003-09-05 6:31 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-05 11:30 ` David Presotto
2003-09-05 11:42 ` David Presotto
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