From: fgergo@gmail.com
To: arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: 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 09:37:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+ctqrqdLdbKHvu0_f+Tn1XsneiX+AS_UqLyKGuf30pAy1eF4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201310160722.r9G7M4E3026447@freefriends.org>
I think that's a big help. Thank you Joel and Arnold!
Gergő
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:22 AM, <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
> 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
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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
2013-10-16 7:37 ` fgergo [this message]
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