Re: [9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation

2013-10-16 Thread arnold
It came into C89 from C++, along with all the function prototype stuff, just as Joel said. I no longer have all the paper drafts from the initial ANSI C effort but I remember this quite well. Arnold fge...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the guess! > Since I could not directly find this informati

Re: [9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation

2013-10-16 Thread fgergo
I think that's a big help. Thank you Joel and Arnold! Gergő On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:22 AM, wrote: > It came into C89 from C++, along with all the function prototype stuff, > just as Joel said. > > I no longer have all the paper drafts from the initial ANSI C effort > but I remember this quite

Re: [9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation

2013-10-15 Thread fgergo
Thanks for the guess! Since I could not directly find this information, at the moment I am trying to find when ... was introduced. I hope to find a hint during this search. On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Gergő Födémesi wrote: >> Who inv

Re: [9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation

2013-10-15 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Gergő Födémesi wrote: > Who invented ... notation in c? > I'll appreciate any hints. I'd guess this comes from C++, along with all function prototypes. --Joel

[9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation

2013-10-14 Thread fgergo
Who invented ... notation in c? I'll appreciate any hints. thanks, Gergő