31 May
2007
31 May
'07
2:15 p.m.
In article <962226.43795.qm at web61013.mail.yahoo.com>,
Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> writes:
[...] That compiler was obviously
pre-ANSI or something.
K&R C allows hiding a variable at an outer scope by declaring a
variable of the same name at an inner scope. Its still not a good
idea, but perfectly legal in C. Hell, your average line noise puke is
legal in C; or was it TECO? ;-)
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