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Re: proposed Opengroup action for c99 command (XCU ERN 76)
Gabriel Dos Reis said:
> "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@panix.com> writes:
> | When the standard is arguably buggy -- if nothing else, it diverges from C
>
> C++98 came before C99, so who diverged from whom?
It doesn't matter. The divergence should be resolved in favor of whichever
standard has it right, not whichever came first. I happen to think that the
C standard, not the C++ standard, has it right, so I argue as I do.
> If you do feel so strongly about this, why don't you invest time in
> sorting this with the committees?
I am not in a position to do that. Others on this list are.
zw