Carrying around excess baggage.

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1418 at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
>    All the (proposed) ANSI C standard seems to have done is made every
>    quirky little implementation "official"...

You obviously weren't around for the Reiserism Wars, when a good many
people rose in outrage because X3J11 disallowed some undocumented, ugly,
poorly-thought-out "features" of the Reiser C preprocessor (used in most
Unix C compilers).  It is most unlikely that *any* pre-X3J11 implementation
is standard-conforming without changes.
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