From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1a88c4d509f6381 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Hyman Rosen Subject: Re: scope and/or parameters (beginner) Date: 1999/04/14 Message-ID: <37151A6D.FAA4ACA2@prolifics.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 466477858 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37064309.889106243@news.dsuper.net> <37084459.8616007@rocketmail.com> <370b0c99.1137352783@news.dsuper.net> <7f2435$54d$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <37149AE9.883147B6@prolifics.com> <7f2ar3$b6l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3714EEC5.689CCFBB@prolifics.com> <7f2vdl$uf6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com X-Trace: news.panix.com 924129832 22000 209.49.126.226 (14 Apr 1999 22:43:52 GMT) Organization: Prolifics Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Apr 1999 22:43:52 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-14T22:43:52+00:00 List-Id: dennison@telepath.com wrote: > I was asking a serious question I'd like to know the answer to. Perhaps it > would be better asked in a C group though. > > If anyone wants me, I'll be off applying substitutions to myself... Sorry about that :-) But you know how you Ada guys get when people make outmoded assumptions about your favorite language. Anyway, const was in the ANSI C Standard, which was accepted in 1989. The Rationale says that work on the Standard started in 1983, and also says that const was borrowed from C++. So it appears that const started showing up in C in the mid-1980s, around fifteen years ago. (As with C++, implementations of near-Standard C arrived as drafts became available.)