Re: scope and/or parameters (beginner)

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <7f51r8$m5r$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> In article <7f4sh1$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.

> 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

As I said, I deal with a lot of C API's myself, and it was just 3 months ago
I came across my first one that used "const". So I guess now, 15 years after
its inception and 10 years after its release, I'm finally going to have to get
an ANSI C reference to be able to understand C code.

At this rate I won't need a C++ reference until 2007. :-)

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