30 Oct
2018
30 Oct
'18
2:32 p.m.
On 10/30/18, Angelo Papenhoff <aap(a)papnet.eu> wrote:
On 30/10/18, Steve Simon wrote:
PL/1 inherited the concept of routines with multiple entry points from Fortran.
Did the early K&R C compilers actually implement multiple entry point
routines, or was the keyword simply reserved for future use?
-Paul W.
“entry” was a reserved word in K&R Ed.1,
my personal favourite C trivia. I have never seen it used outside fortran
on mainframes though.
I think PL/1 on Multics uses it, which is probably how it "got into" C.