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Subject: Re: [9fans] wchar_t in ANSI C (was "Announce: port")
From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:16:01 -0400
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>> Now you're being needlessly pedantic. Plan 9 does not run on any
>> 16-bit platform and I explicitly said it was a Plan 9 example.
>
> Well, okay, I was looking toward what would be needed were the
> example to be extended to support more general encodings, in
> anticipation of a complaint that Standard C also requires
> "int" be changed to an appropriate typedef.  If Plan 9 were
> addressing a wider problem domain it would need the same kind
> of thing done for it too.

Yeah, but C doesn't have parametric polymorphism ;-)