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- From: Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@cern.ch>
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- Subject: Re: What the heck is ...?
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 04:30:40 +0100
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- sconi@superstore.com (Chris Tiee "Chochoni Boboni") writes:
-
- >Here's something all the books love to avoid: The use of ... in function
- >declarations. For example, one book says that the prototype of printf() is
- >
- >int printf(const char *fmt_string, ...);
- >
- >but nowhere in the book does it ever document the meaning or usage of ...
- >. (actually, it did document ..., but because it was also a C++ book as
- >well, it said that ... is used to catch all the exceptions in exception
- >handling). I scrambled through some other C books, but they never made any
- >explanations at all.
- >
- >Doesn't anyone know what it does? I don't like to learn things without
- >learning it completely.
-
- Then, get a copy of K&R2 and read it.
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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