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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:22:04 -0600
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation
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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.co=
m> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Gerg=C5=91 F=C3=B6d=C3=A9mesi <fgerg=
o@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