[Coco] ansifront src

[Willard Goosey]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 08:19:23AM -0700, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Did either of you get a message from another person who said "I also have 
> Ansifront source, 013 is the latest I believe."?

I never got it.

> He also said that he tried to contact Willard.

Humph, my spam filter may have eaten it.  Sometimes the regexps get hungry.

Could you ask him to resend?  I'm also harmlok at yahoo.com and
willardgoosey2 at gmail.com 

I'd be quite interested in getting my grubby little hands on the
ansifront source.

> So we have two chances to get the Ansifront source.

> BTY, Is Ansifront pretty much useless as while it accepts the ANSI syntax 
> but the compiler does NOT do the checking that is the real advantage of the 
> new language?

It does do at least some checks.  It will complain quite bitterly if you
use a function (like fopen()) that returns a non-integer without giving
it a proper definition (FILE *fopen()).  

I've mainly used ansifront on K&R code that I was trying to port to OS-9
that managed to step in some of the Microware bugs.  I have no idea if
it's smart enough to typecheck function arguments if given proper
prototypes.  

Willard
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