4.2 extern a DISASTER

[Henry Spencer]

> Seriously, the ANSI standards document seems to be perpetuating
> the problem rather than getting to the bottom of it-namely 
> defining a syntatic construct which will allow the compiler
> to more easily distinguish between defining and referencing
> occurences for externs. ...

We do not want the ANSI committee being inventive; we want them to
standardize the language we've got, not invent a new one!  One can
argue that they have already gone too far in this direction.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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