Orphaned Response - (nf)

[bobm at zinfandel.UUCP]

#R:wivax:-1945700:zinfandel:14600018:177600:755
zinfandel!bobm    May 14 23:18:00 1984

> 019 being equal to 17 decimal is an attribute of the VAX PCC lexer;
> it is not a part of the C language definition.
> 
> Without disregarding the many baroque qualities of the language
> definition, one must realize that 'net.lang.c' is a newsgroup for
> Talmudic dissection of Kernighan and Ritchie--weird questions are
> expected.  ANSI C should help clarify some of the ambiguities.
> God help us when net.lang.ada really begins to be used!  
> -- 
> /Steve Dyer
> decvax!bbncca!sdyer
> sdyer at bbncca
> /* ---------- */

K&R, Appendix A (the REAL reference; pay no attention to what it says
in the chapters), Section 2.4.1, states, "....  The digits 8 and 9 have
octal value 10 and 11 respectively...."

					Scholar of the Holy Law,
					Bob Miller