In article <2025Apr16.232617@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,   
   Anton Ertl  wrote:   
   >Hans Bezemer  writes:   
   >>You can tune the behavior of most C compilers as well - comply to a   
   >>certain standard. Don't tell me you can't do that with Forth (because   
   >>you can).   
   >   
   >C standards avoid incompatible changes as good as they can.  However,   
   >because C is a keyword-based language and redefining existing names   
   >produces an error in C, even adding a single keyword or a single name   
   >can break compatibility with an existing program, and the compilers   
   >allow you to dial the specific standard in order to deal with that.   
      
   Oh? For example 'static' in a c-source has the meaning of making a name   
   invisile to the outside world.   
   A normal person would call that 'local', especially given that static   
   actually meant residing in heap memory.   
   So as the c-expert hired for Fico moldings I introduced a file   
   fico.h with a line   
      
       #define static local   
      
   (and the line   
       #define TRUE 1   
   because they came from Pascal and thought that TRUE was -1 ).   
      
   >- anton   
      
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