Noalias trivia question

Walter Bays walter at garth.UUCP
Wed May 4 04:55:08 AEST 1988


In article <5995 at utcsri.UUCP> norvell at utcsri.UUCP (Theodore Stevens Norvell) writes:
>[Noalias] would have broken no existing code (except
>that which used the word "noalias" as an identifier); unlike the
>idea of using pragma it would have been portable.  I hope that
>sensible vendors will agree on a semi-standard pragma for it.

How about the noalias supporters on the committee proposing a pragma here
on the net?  Or simply announcing what they're going to do?  Users can
only be hurt if we all go off in dozens of incompatible directions.
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