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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: conversion of code to common subset of C and C++ in my bif-c project (from "if statement with initializer")
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Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>
>> Note that the grammar in the C standard most likely is for machine
>> processing.  I don't think it is intended to be a reference for humans.
>
> I'm offering a bet of 1,000 dollars (US) that the people who
> wrote it would say otherwise.

Honestly, I have no idea why smart people continue to reply to Bartc.
He's either entirely deviod of good faith, or dumber than a box of rocks.