From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:22:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201310160722.r9G7M4E3026447@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+ctqrqTeBJ05tKiRjGwYT_5GDM3POwV0su_p+pHKUeF9Eowmg@mail.gmail.com>
It came into C89 from C++, along with all the function prototype stuff,
just as Joel said.
I no longer have all the paper drafts from the initial ANSI C effort
but I remember this quite well.
Arnold
fgergo@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for the guess!
> Since I could not directly find this information, at the moment I am
> trying to find when ... was introduced. I hope to find a hint during
> this search.
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Gergő Födémesi <fgergo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Who invented ... notation in c?
> >> I'll appreciate any hints.
> >
> > I'd guess this comes from C++, along with all function prototypes.
> >
> > --Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-16 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-14 21:40 fgergo
2013-10-16 4:21 ` Joel C. Salomon
2013-10-16 6:40 ` fgergo
2013-10-16 7:22 ` arnold [this message]
2013-10-16 7:37 ` fgergo
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