Bug in new K&R?

[Henry Spencer]

> Hmmm.  I thought ANSI was supposed to standardize the C language, not
> fill the description with surprises ...

Standards committees tend to do the latter even when they are only supposed
to do the former.  X3J11 has not been too bad about this, compared to some
of the things that have happened in other standards efforts.
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