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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: <iso646.h>
- Keywords: Standard C international header implementation
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.002128.12668@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 00:21:28 GMT
- References: <19457@smoke.brl.mil> <Bz7tKM.KDF@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us> <2403@sdrc.COM>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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- In article <2403@sdrc.COM>, scjones@thor.sdrc.com (Larry Jones) writes:
-
- > [stuff explaining why <iso646.h> exists]
-
- > If you think this is a crock, then what we need to do is to get it
- > shot down by a wide variety of countries at the ISO SC22 level rather
- > than having the big bad USA picking on poor little Denmark which is
- > how some people have viewed X3J11's objections.
-
- Feh. Me, what I'll do is what I always do when someone promulgates a
- stupid standard: ignore it. I'll proceed to use "or" as an identifier
- whenever it seems to be the appropriate name. I'll use ??= in strings
- when it seems appropriate. And if someone has problems porting my code
- because of this, that's too bad, but I refuse to cripple myself because
- others insist on crippling themselves. At least this time, a new
- header is required before the silliness becomes programmer-visible.
-
- der Mouse
-
- mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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