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: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: scope and/or parameters (beginner) Date: 1999/04/15 Message-ID: <7f51r8$m5r$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 466740283 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$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <37151A6D.FAA4ACA2@prolifics.com> <7f4sh1$h8l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x9.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Apr 15 15:50:04 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7f4sh1$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. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own