Re: scope and/or parameters (beginner)

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>]

In article <7f4sh1$h8l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dennison@telepath.com wrote:

> I guess the real lesson here is that there are an
> awful lot of obsolete K&R C compilers (and code) still
> floating around.

You also have to consider the knowledge base, i.e. do
programmers know all the relatively new stuff in the ANSI
C standard, and can they count on maintenance programmers
to know it.

When it comes to const, this is of course an important
feature, but it does not BEGIN to have become standard
practice in C code, and indeed virtually all API's I
have worked with seem to prefer to use #define in the
traditional manner to using const. This is not a decision
I approve of, I am merely making an observation, it takes
time for things to change.

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