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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: What are the best C programming language books for beginner?
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 96 00:06:02 GMT
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- In article <4i81un$4gc@solutions.solon.com>
- seebs@solutions.solon.com "Peter Seebach" writes:
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- >K&R is fully ANSI, with one (1) exception I know of (*study* page 117.).
- >I have found one piece of advice I disagree with, one mistake, and one
- >typo. (Missing " on page 114. I didn't find it; dmr pointed it out
- >when I sent in a bug report on the one on 117.)
- >
- >It has been ANSI-ized since before there was ANSI C.
- >
- >(Although an intermediate draft there was inaccurate.)
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- I have the draft-ANSI version of K&R2. The biggest error in it w.r.t. the
- final standard is the description of scanf in both the tutorial and reference
- sections, particularly with regards white-space handling. I understood that
- the revised ANSI edition didn't correct this. Am I right?
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- For example in the reference section B1.3 by copy says:
-
- "... The format string may contain:
-
- . Blanks or tabs, which are ignored"
-
- which is false.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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