diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond) (09/28/89)
The grammar given in the standard does not permit an empty source file. Strangely enough, a preprocessor source file may be empty, but since it cannot generate a non-empty real source file, error detection is only delayed. However, in 2.1.1.2, phase 2, "A source file that is not empty shall end in a new-line character, ...." Why the condition "that is not empty"? Did the committee intend to allow an empty source file, but forgot that somewhere along the way? -- Norman Diamond, Sony Corporation (diamond@ws.sony.junet) The above opinions are inherited by your machine's init process (pid 1), after being disowned and orphaned. However, if you see this at Waterloo or Anterior, then their administrators must have approved of these opinions.