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
next prev parent 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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