From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201310160722.r9G7M4E3026447@freefriends.org> References: <201310160722.r9G7M4E3026447@freefriends.org> From: fgergo@gmail.com Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:37:04 +0200 Message-ID: To: arnold@skeeve.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation Topicbox-Message-UUID: 86b7d42a-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I think that's a big help. Thank you Joel and Arnold! Gerg=C5=91 On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:22 AM, 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 wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Gerg=C5=91 F=C3=B6d=C3=A9mesi wrote: >> >> Who invented ... notation in c? >> >> I'll appreciate any hints. >> > >> > I'd guess this comes from C++, along with all function prototypes. >> > >> > --Joel