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Subject: Re: [TUHS] C entry keyword
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Steve Simon wrote:
> =E2=80=9Centry=E2=80=9D was a reserved word in K&R Ed.1,
> my personal favourite C trivia. I have never seen it used outside
> fortran on mainframes though.

It's there in Snyder's C compiler, but not used.  From the grammar:

    statement:
    ...
        | ENTRY identifier ':' statement       {val=3Daentry(#2,#4);}

But the supporting code in the compiler:

    aentry (idn, stmt)
        {return (stmt);}    /* not implemented */