Another stupid language proposal

karl at haddock karl at haddock
Sun Aug 31 07:19:00 AEST 1986


rbbb at rice.ARPA writes:
>[ proposal for valof/resultis a la BCPL ]
>I also realize that this is a bit of a hefty feature to go proposing for
>ANSI C, so I am just asking people to think about it.

I don't think it'll ever be added to C.  The inline function, which has about
as much power, is a less drastic change and is syntactically neater.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl, karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint



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