Re: Work for developers

[Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com>]

>>>>> "John" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
    John> Whoa, that seems to be rather stupid.  But in any case,
    John> still, you can initialize variables to function calls, no?

Auto variables, yes. As in:

	int func (void) {
		int var = something;
	}

In the above, something can be anything you want as var is initialised
at run time.  What you can't do is:

	int var = something;
	int func (void) {
	...
	}

as var is initialised at *compile* time when the storage allocation is
done.

As for std{in,out,err} being #defined to functions, no, it's not
stupid.  It allows code to be thread safe without requiring it to be
re-written as the RTL can handle the gory details under the covers.

-- 
Stephen
---
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group. :) -- Randal Schwartz