FROM : Alastair Houghton
DATE : Thu Apr 24 20:09:04 2008
On 24 Apr 2008, at 18:17, John Stiles wrote:
> Is the $ usage an extension? That doesn't sound like regular C to me.
Well it's implementation defined, if that's what you mean, yes. I
think K&R allowed it, then ANSI disallowed it---I think (this is all
from memory)---but C99 allows any characters the implementation cares
to support (though there is, of course, a standard set).
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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DATE : Thu Apr 24 20:09:04 2008
On 24 Apr 2008, at 18:17, John Stiles wrote:
> Is the $ usage an extension? That doesn't sound like regular C to me.
Well it's implementation defined, if that's what you mean, yes. I
think K&R allowed it, then ANSI disallowed it---I think (this is all
from memory)---but C99 allows any characters the implementation cares
to support (though there is, of course, a standard set).
Kind regards,
Alastair.
--
http://alastairs-place.net
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