the 'entry' reserved word

[Swamp Thing]

In article <1643 at uwmacc.UUCP> oyster at uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) writes:
>In article <2806 at brl-tgr.ARPA> bilbo.niket at LOCUS.UCLA.EDU (Niket K. Patwardhan) writes:
>>
>>BTW, original K&R C had "entry" defined as a keyword but never told you what
>>to do with it! Look it up, you will find it in the list of reserved keywords!
>
>   I've been wondering about that.  Seems to me (that's your cue that this is
>*opinion*) that it's more desirable to explicitly declare what can and cannot
>be seen outside a module.  This could be done by marking as 'entry' each
>variable or function that can be externally referenced.  Now, I'm not about
>to argue with the experience that went into the design of C, but I wonder
>if that wasn't what was originally considered.
>

My guess is that they intended to provide multiple entries into functions, as
in (GASP!) fortran.


						Mark F. Flynn
						Department of Physics
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
						ihnp4!wuphys!mff

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