Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { } Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:36:13 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 31 Message-ID: <875x8md3wy.fsf@example.invalid> References: <8634enhcui.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86jz6r1cf5.fsf@linuxsc.com> <87r00yeqyo.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <867bt3kmdh.fsf@linuxsc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:36:14 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="88a755245fe5339816bf0606603b0585"; logging-data="4186276"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX187F0Fg0e0T1YMnCgC6OAza" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9a6fpJJ2j6xm7Bc5QWuWskwVc1s= sha1:1XST0K0UAn7HujJE7j0/oHFBnoY= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:396502 Tim Rentsch writes: > Keith Thompson writes: >> Tim Rentsch writes: >>> Wuns Haerst writes: >>> [...] >>>> I think Thiago's idea is brilliant. He should become a >>>> member of the standardization committee. He's welcome >>>> to post suggestions like this here. >>> >>> If someone wants to propose a revision or addition to the >>> ISO C standard, the appropriate newsgroup in which to post >>> it is comp.std.c, not comp.lang.c. >> >> Perhaps, but comp.std.c has no official status with the ISO C >> committee. I don't know if any of its members even read it. > > I expect none do, but that has no bearing on my comment. I say it does. Someone reading your post (more than 8 months ago) might easily have inferred that comp.std.c has some official standing with the ISO C committee. I agree that comp.std.c is probably a more appropriate place to post suggestions for changes to the standard. I was adding information, not disagreeing. [...] -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */