From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 19:46:37 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA07832 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 19:46:37 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA07822 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 19:46:32 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA03086; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 12:41:06 +1000 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 12:41:06 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199509140241.MAA03086@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vnode_if.sh Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, questions@freebsd.org Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> Old-style function definitions are Standard although "obsolescent". >> When do you think they will be nonStandard? >When the last machine running the last K&R compiler is shut off and >Brian and Dennis lie in their graves. Much too early :-). All the dusty decks that use old-style definitions must become dust before old-style definitions can be more than deprecated. I think C will become a dead language first. Bruce