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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: Re: Announce: OpenToken 2.0 released
Date: 2000/02/01
Date: 2000-02-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87799k$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: t790146b69.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com

On 01 Feb 2000 13:16:14 -0500, Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> wrote:
>By the way, the normal C/C++ style for handling EOF is to have the
>return type of the character reader be such that it can hold any
>value of the character set, plus an out-of-band value representing
>EOF. The usual is '#define EOF -1' and 'int getchar()'.

Which means that c: Character; c := getchar(); is illegal (at least
in Ada; in C it would get silently truncated.) It's a major pain
in C, and a well known source of bugs. How about making it like
procedure GetChar (EOF: in out boolean; Char: in out character);?

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
If you wish to strive for peace of soul then believe; 
if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
   -- Friedrich Nietzsche




  reply	other threads:[~2000-02-01  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-27  0:00 Announce: OpenToken 2.0 released Ted Dennison
2000-01-28  0:00 ` Jürgen Pfeifer
2000-01-28  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-31  0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-01  0:00     ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00       ` David Starner [this message]
2000-02-01  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-01  0:00           ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00             ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-02  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02  0:00             ` Jeff Carter
2000-02-02  0:00             ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-01  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-04  0:00         ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-05  0:00           ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-04  0:00       ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-07  0:00         ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-07  0:00           ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-07  0:00             ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-09  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-09  0:00             ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-09  0:00               ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-17  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-17  0:00                 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-17  0:00                   ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-17  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-17  0:00                       ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-17  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
     [not found]                   ` <88iuk2$s6d3@ftp.kvaerner.com>
2000-03-05  0:00                     ` [OT] C and in-band signalling (was: Re: Announce: OpenToken 2.0 released) Florian Weimer
2000-03-06  0:00                       ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-06  0:00                         ` Keith Thompson
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