From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: status icon support Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:14:42 +0100 Message-ID: <86ve5wixa5.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <200801120157.m0C1v6WL020654@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200801121352.m0CDqERq011212@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85zlvb3yhn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200302098 14367 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2008 09:14:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:14:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, schwab@suse.de, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 14 10:15:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JELPa-0002Ez-Et for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:15:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JELPC-0004jE-09 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:14:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JELP8-0004i6-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:14:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JELP4-0004gW-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:14:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JELP4-0004gD-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.quinscape.de ([212.29.44.217]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JELP4-0006ut-5v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail-ldap/ctrl 17751 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2008 09:14:43 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by ns.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Jan 2008 09:14:42 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E2352FA5FE; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:14:42 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:01:03 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.6.0.46; VDF: 7.0.1.229; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86883 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > The K&R function declaration style is obsolescent in C99. This > means that compilers are allowed to reject such code or accept > it with a warning message. In either case, they aren't allowed > to ignore it. > > > Compilers are not allowed to accept this style of declaration without > warning. > > Not allowed? Nobody can stop us! What about "in C99" did you not understand? In a similar vein, nothing can stop you from moving a rook diagonally. Sure. But it is no longer chess you are playing then. -- David Kastrup