Re: cc-mode adds newlines

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Andries,


Andries Brouwer writes:
> It is also broken because the CC major mode is documented as "C
> mode: Major mode for editing K&R and ANSI C code", while K&R C is
> explicitly documented as not requiring a final newline.

You mean the K&R book explicitly said so in it's pre-standard edition?

Naturally there is not really a standard definition of pre-standard C.
>From what I know about C89, like most restrictions, the requirement of
a final newline was most likely made because one or more compilers
required it that were already implemented and used before the
standard.


benny