In my friend Fourth Breakfast's blog entry http://fourthbreakfast.blogspot.com/2006/09/tagged.html, I have been asked to "Tell us the 5th through 8th sentences on page 123 of the book nearest you."

To be honest, the first book nearest to me at the time I read this contained company proprietary information. Couldn't do that.

Went back to my home office, grabbed the nearest book, and to comply, here is the text:

"Then *pfa[] is a recognized as a dcl (sic), so (*pfa[]) is a direct-dcl. Then (*pfa[])() is a direct-dcl and thus a dcl. We can also illustrate the parse with a parse tree like this (where direct-dcl has been abbreviated to dir-dcl): [Image in book omitted] The heart of the dcl program is a pair of functions, dcl and dirdcl, that parse a declaration according to this grammar."

The source is "The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition (ANSI C)" by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. Copyright 1988, Prentice Hall Publishers.

No real programmer would ever risk *not* having this be the closest book on their desk. It is, after all, the C Programming Language Bible.

docrpm, you're it.

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