raymond@sunkist.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) (04/12/90)
In article <+1V2VOAxds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >We need a periodic posting for comp.lang.c, I fear. Since I already have a lot of the machinery up and running for the Frequently Asked Questions for comp.sys.ibm.pc, I figure I'll put my head on the chopping block once again and volunteer to collect submissions to a periodic posting for comp.lang.c. How to send your submission: In a piece of email, write a question and an answer. That simple. Your question/answer pair will be included verbatim; I WILL NOT edit it at all. Not having served on the ANSI committee, nor having memorized the ANSI standard, I don't feel qualified to compose answers. The sentence "This answer provided by Your Name (your@email.address)" will be appended to your answer, unless you specifically request otherwise. Guidelines: Answers to questions about the C language itself should address both ANSI-compatibility concerns and generic compatibility concerns. So sentences like "ANSI requires XXX, but older compilers might not do it that way" or "This has always been true; it is not a new feature of ANSI" should be attached. Book recommendations should come with full bibliographical information, including title, author, publisher, publisher's address, and year of publication. A price and ISBN number would be nice, but aren't required. Survey: Even if you aren't submitting a question/answer, you can cast your vote for one of the following: [1] File posted in its entirety every week. [2] File posted in its entirety every month. [3] File posted in its entirety every month, and the table of contents (and instructions on how to get the entire file) posted every week. [4] Other periodicity. [5] We don't need a periodic frequently-asked questions file. If category [5] gets the most votes, I won't make a frequently-asked questions file. Don't just say "I vote for number 2"; say "I vote to post the file every month", since I try not to memorize magic numbers. -- raymond@math.berkeley.edu Maintainer of the csip Frequently Asked Questions