Mark Williams C

[nevin.j.liber]

In article <10378 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|Standard-conforming code is not expected to be rendered non-conforming
|in the next revision of the C Standard.  Any area where there was some
|sentiment that it might was flagged as an "obsolescent feature" in the
|current Standard, which should serve as sufficient warning to people
|to avoid relying on their long-term stability.  All other features
|should remain in C "forever".

Does this mean the ANS C v2 won't have any new keywords??  I doubt it.
Yet adding new keywords has a possibility of breaking existing code.
As a matter of fact, There is terribly little that can be added to C which
will not break existing pANS C v1 code (offhand, the only thing I can think
of is something on the order of allowing a comma after the last element
in declarator list).

Still, it will probably be 99% compatible.
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