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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:50:25 -0700
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 12:58:08 +0200
> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09.04.2025 11:42, David Brown wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/04/2025 18:28, bart wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I believe the meaning of "extern" in combination with other
>>> storage-class specifiers was picked to work with existing old code
>>> from before "extern" was added to the language.
>>
>> Assuming you mean the "C" language I don't quite understand the last
>> part of the sentence.  Wasn't 'extern' already in "K&R" - so what was
>> "the language" before the addition of 'extern'?
>>
>> Or did you just mean to say "[...] before _combinations_ of 'extern'
>> and other storage-class specifier were added to the language."
>>
>> Janis, puzzled
>
> K&R was published in 1978, 5 years after C got its first users.
> Back in 1973-74 C language was significantly different from what it
> became few years later.

I haven't made any effort to verify this, but I would be
surprised to learn that 'extern' was not part of C well
before K&R.