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From: Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi-9fans@mithrandi.za.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] "ridiculous benchmarks"-r-us
Date: Fri,  9 Jan 2004 22:06:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040109200611.GA17202@mithrandi.za.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c36397125ce19a96ba073306ca1ef5e@borf.com>

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 13:52:55 -0500, Brantley Coile wrote:
> What possible rationale did they have for adding nested procedures to C?
> Did they call them mid-functions in the standard?  Why rename a concept
> just because it's 47 years old!

I think he means that C99 allows you to have variable definitions at any
point in a block, instead of forcing you to place them at the beginning
of the block.

mithrandi


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-09 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09 17:42 mirtchov
2004-01-09 17:47 ` ron minnich
2004-01-09 18:19 ` Icarus Sparry
2004-01-09 18:37   ` mirtchov
2004-01-09 20:25     ` Sam
2004-01-09 20:29       ` Charles Forsyth
2004-01-09 20:44         ` Sam
2004-01-09 20:44         ` Brantley Coile
2004-01-10  0:37           ` Dennis Ritchie
2004-01-09 20:48         ` mirtchov
2004-01-11  1:02     ` [9fans] 'ridiculous benchmarks'-r-us Joel Salomon
2004-01-09 18:52   ` [9fans] "ridiculous benchmarks"-r-us Brantley Coile
2004-01-09 20:06     ` Tristan Seligmann [this message]
2004-01-10  5:06     ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-09 19:40 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2004-01-09 20:54 ` Atanas Bachvaroff

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