X-Spamscanner: mailbox6.ucsd.edu (v1.4 Mar 2 2004 11:47:57, 0.0/5.0 2.63) X-Old-trace: 1080812962 gemini.plethora.net 437 205.166.146.8 Subject: No April Fools post this year. Approved: clc@plethora.net X-Mailscanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 74126 i319nNgC089655 mailbox6.ucsd.edu) From: seebs@plethora.net (Seebs) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test74 (May 26, 2000) Return-Path: X-Old-complaints-to: abuse@plethora.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.c.moderated Message-Id: Originator: clcm@plethora.net (Comp Lang C'Moderated) Date: 01 Apr 2004 10:39:33 GMT Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 4fb694ed.news.plethora.net X-Trace: 1080815973 gemini.plethora.net 430 clcm@205.166.146.1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@plethora.net As most of you are aware, every year, we have some sort of April Fools post. This year, we are not observing April Fools day. There will be no weird jokes, no strangely impossible claims, no liar's paradoxes. It is our hope that this example of sane, rational, behavior will be taken as guidance by the C programming community. I can't promise that this is a direct response to the #scope and #import preprocessor directives, but I will admit that they figured into my decision. -s -- Copyright 2004, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / seebs@plethora.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ - YA blog. http://www.seebs.net/ - homepage. C/Unix wizard, pro-commerce radical, spam fighter. Boycott Spamazon! Consulting, computers, web hosting, and shell access: http://www.plethora.net/ -- comp.lang.c.moderated - moderation address: clcm@plethora.net