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From: fgergo@gmail.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:40:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+ctqrqTeBJ05tKiRjGwYT_5GDM3POwV0su_p+pHKUeF9Eowmg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFUtaNH19F0j7LBDP3guAtZiUEhEfbsjvYbpFMC=i=tTdYJmFg@mail.gmail.com>

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
>



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-16  6:40 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 [this message]
2013-10-16  7:22     ` arnold
2013-10-16  7:37       ` fgergo

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