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From: dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough)
Subject: Re: New ISO C draft available
Date: 1998/08/27
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"Are there any special issues that the Ada community would like to see
 fixed in the C standard?"

Underscores in numeric literals!!! Given it's 0 impact on backward
compatability, the miniscule cost in implementing it*, on a cost
benefit ratio, this would have to be one of the cheapest changes 
you could make.

Dale

* if you ignore support tools that parse C code :-)