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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 11:35:46 -0700
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.829012486@schonberg> <4kcpgkINNcku@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <TYNOR.96Apr9105114@twratl.atlanta.twr.com>
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- In article <TYNOR.96Apr9105114@twratl.atlanta.twr.com>,
- Steve Tynor <tynor@atlanta.twr.com> wrote:
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- >What does this have to do with EBCDIC? i and j in this examples are
- >just identifier names of variables -- &i is the address of the
- >variable i. I has nothing whatsoever to do with the EBCDIC (or ASCII
- >or whatever character set you choose) value of the characters 'i' and
- >'j'. The answer is still "only sometimes", but not for the reason
- >given :-). Or did I miss a Date: header of "1 Apr"?
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- It's a (partial) repost from Peter's contribution to Apr 1.
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