Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 06:53:11 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <36hPB.16749$Jw1.11281@fx17.am4> <87tvxu18ff.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87shddyc78.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <4ccde6fc-1ced-4182-b92d-202fdf9fa55c@googlegroups.com> <5a8ad8da-ed89-437f-bf55-a3d00e1f7be8@googlegroups.com> <676b4762-9066-4744-b9f3-80ec5b97e019@googlegroups.com> <0f58d23b-06e8-4fdf-8ac5-c546bbd0df6f@googlegroups.com> <1b1sktpmw1.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net vD64hBYvBUyHQWPQlYOSNwajlZYjCS15J3om7wNZk3U9kMtIuU Cancel-Lock: sha1:MmZmYWY1YWJiY2EyMGI3ODA2NGQxY2ZkYTZiMzJkMDg2M2ZjODgzMA== sha1:xAjorz2MRiDH9vTWWPu800vDWuc= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:123034 Joe Pfeiffer writes: > Öö Tiib writes: > >> like say 'int long const signed'? > > Apparently Bart finds writing "const const const" -- I guess he wanted > to be really, really sure it was a const? -- to be a reasonable enough > programming construct that he encounters things like this frequently. > Nobody else does.... There's one technical reason to allow this: macros. -- __Pascal J. Bourguignon http://www.informatimago.com