fgetpos, fsetpos, and ANSIness in general

[Norman Diamond]

In article <OTTO.89Oct8093607 at tukki.jyu.fi> otto at tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:

>>and there is a real danger of creeping Pascalism

In article <11244 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>I don't know what "Pascalism" is supposed to consist of.  Practically all
>Pascal-inspired proposals for extensions or changes to C were rejected.

Some of these ugly useless characteristics crept into C before ANSI, but
here are some abominable examples of Pascalism (:-I irony).

-  typedef

-  enum

-  union

-  separate namespace for members of each struct/union

-  function prototypes

-  strict typechecking of function pointers

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