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[Henry Spencer]

In article <15373 at rphroy.UUCP> tkacik at rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik) writes:
>The pANS C got rid of the still born keyword 'entry'.
>Maybe it had no meaning, or was to mean something completely different,
>but my interpretation of it was to give the entry point into the program,
>if you did not like main.

Rather more likely is that it was meant to be similar to ENTRY in PL/I
(and FORTRAN, I think -- my memory is dim), providing for multiple entry
points into individual functions.  Ugh.
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