Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: K&R, 2nd edition, Brian's concerns with ``char c = EOF'' Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 01:58:53 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: <86lf0s7pcy.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <86pmqwkm7u.fsf@levado.to> <4fcda596-2e00-4dd6-bf8f-4616218f4398n@googlegroups.com> <91a56855-b917-45a2-89be-7e2ed806d357n@googlegroups.com> <87a6hac0oj.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <11efb602-293a-4a90-b0bd-832617377f57n@googlegroups.com> <86fsr28ns3.fsf@linuxsc.com> <5e1ba862-156c-4b1d-93a4-661ef66aadedn@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="94ee63d76223a75d29f96ac519efdd3f"; logging-data="13838"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4r2SmL0aOkSL4eLIhpzIfVxAaVhJCuVs=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TQ9o8m0Ifq4K+AegNFJ2Sfd3Y3A= sha1:9AciWdcX5+23rJwmezk3fV+c5rw= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:163762 Dave Dunfield writes: > On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 10:23:22 PM UTC-5, Tim Rentsch wrote: > >> (Incidentally, can you explain why you can't set up a news >> account with one of several few news providers, such as >> eternal-september, and avoid the problems of using google >> groups?) > > Just haven't taken the time so far ... looked into setting up some > sort of newsgroup access and spent hours running into various > roadblocks... Along the way I discovered "Google Groups" which > would give me access with little difficulty .. just at the cost of > having everything reformatted in a "code unfriendly" manner... If you want other people to look at what you're doing it's important to provide access in a way that _they_ think is easy. > [...] I've essentially retired and having much more time on my > hands, [...] If you have lots of free time, you might practice writing C code that conforms to the ISO C standard. Good feedback is available using gcc -std=c99 -pedantic-errors