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Re: C Translator

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: C Translator
Date 2019-03-31 03:23 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <87imvzaiis.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink)
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 30/03/2019 20:32, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 30/03/2019 16:17, Scott wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 11:03:20 +0000, Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 30/03/2019 04:52, Scott wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 21:10:31 +0000, Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 29/03/2019 20:02, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>>>>>> You are shoe-horning C into your own categories.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No. They are categories that people will expect any language to have.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your talent for contradicting yourself in the space of one sentence is
>>>>>> remarkable.
>>>>>
>>>>> And yours seem to be in not making sense. In what way have I
>>>>> contradicted myself?
>>>>
>>>> (1) C is in the set of any 'language'; (2) I am in the set of
>>>> 'people'; but (3) I do not expect C to have the categories you
>>>> describe. Your claim disproves itself.
>>>
>>> Then I'm curious: what categories of function scopes do you expect a
>>> language to have?
>>
>> Please!  Functions do not have scopes -- names have scopes.
>
> You snipped the bit where I say that other names have scopes, but I
> was asking about function names only.

The text you refer to has the same confusion.  It says that "this"
(presumably referring to what you said about functions) applies to
other named entities.  I don't see how that removes the confusion.

>>  OK, you may
>> well consider that nit-picking, but even so, you are not talking about
>> /scope/ at all but about /linkage/.
>
> I consider scope to be a more general concept of which linkage is
> part.

By all means consider black to be white, but if you post about that in a
Goth group, people will tell you are using the words wrongly.

-- 
Ben.

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C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-28 16:16 +0000
  Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-29 00:01 +0000
    Re: C Translator Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-03-28 20:31 -0500
    Re: C Translator Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-28 19:02 -0700
      Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-29 02:34 +0000
        Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-29 10:58 +0100
          Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-29 12:47 +0000
            Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-29 14:57 +0100
              Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-29 14:57 +0000
                Re: C Translator fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-03-29 15:08 -0700
                Re: C Translator fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-03-29 15:42 -0700
              Re: C Translator scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-03-29 15:16 +0000
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-29 15:30 +0000
                Re: C Translator fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-03-29 14:47 -0700
        Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-29 10:42 +0000
          Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-29 11:57 +0000
            Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-29 13:04 +0000
            Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-29 14:58 +0100
              Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-29 14:29 +0000
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-29 20:06 +0000
            Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-29 20:02 +0000
              Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-29 21:10 +0000
                Re: C Translator nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-03-30 04:52 +0000
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-30 11:03 +0000
                Re: C Translator nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-03-30 16:17 +0000
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-30 18:36 +0000
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-30 20:32 +0000
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-30 22:44 +0000
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-31 03:23 +0100
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-31 12:39 +0100
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-31 15:07 +0100
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-31 16:21 +0100
                Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-31 21:19 +0200
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-31 20:58 +0100
                Re: C Translator Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2019-03-31 20:33 +0000
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-31 22:06 +0100
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-31 22:37 +0100
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-31 23:33 +0100
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-01 02:35 +0100
                Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-04-01 11:33 +0200
                Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-31 23:54 +0200
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-01 02:16 +0100
                Re: C Translator Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2019-04-01 06:42 +0000
                Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-04-01 11:35 +0200
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-01 16:54 +0100
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-01 21:01 +0100
                Re: C Translator Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-01 13:41 -0700
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-01 22:40 +0100
                Re: C Translator Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-01 16:25 -0700
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-02 00:50 +0100
                Re: C Translator Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-01 17:45 -0700
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-02 11:28 +0100
                Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-04-02 13:18 +0200
                Re: C Translator Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-04-02 19:15 +0000
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-02 21:14 +0100
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-02 13:28 +0100
                Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-04-02 10:49 +0200
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-02 01:58 +0100
                Re: C Translator Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-01 19:13 -0700
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-02 11:13 +0100
                Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-04-02 13:49 +0200
                Re: C Translator Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2019-04-02 05:15 -0700
                Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-02 14:50 +0100
                Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-04-02 16:06 +0200
                Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-04-02 16:05 +0200
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-02 00:11 +0100
                Re: C Translator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-04-02 10:35 +0200
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-02 00:06 +0100
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-31 21:36 +0100
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-31 16:32 +0100
              Re: C Translator Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-30 00:37 +0000
                Re: C Translator Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-30 01:00 +0000
                Re: C Translator fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-03-30 03:37 -0700
                Re: C Translator fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-03-30 06:15 -0700
        Re: C Translator James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-29 07:49 -0700

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