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- From: Christopher R Volpe <volpe@ash.crd.ge.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c.moderated
- Subject: Re: Integral promotion.
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 08:43:31 -0600
- Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY
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- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
- >
- > stanr@tiac.net (Stan Ryckman) wrote:
- >
- > >In article <4gq8nn$opk@solutions.solon.com>, <msb@sq.com> wrote:
- > >>
- > >>Section 4/1.7:
- > >># An implementation shall be accompanied by a document that defines all
- > >># implementation-defined characteristics and all extensions.
- >
- > >I wonder... does the standard define "a document?"
- >
- > That would be circular: the "standard" _is_ a document.
-
- Nah. The fact that the Standard happens to be a document is totally
- incidental and has no bearing on the Standard's use of the term
- "document" in the context of "the implementation be accompanied by a
- document...". The Standard is also a sequence of characters, but that
- doesn't mean that providing its own definition of "character sequence"
- for the purposes of discussing string literals, or header files, or
- whatever, would be circular.
-
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