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Aside: to this day, that sort of ad-hoc syntax makes me gag. K&R should be publicly flogged on a regular basis.

And for so many other reasons, too, like mandating a preprocessor (with a complex, operationally defined semantics) simply because they couldn't be bothered to design a (simple, 1st order) module system.

Manners, please. Such immoderate words have no place on this mailing list. Doug