signed characters

[Henry Spencer]

In article <4700058 at m.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll at m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>The problem was that "signed" was a valid type modifier, but "unsigned" wasn't.
>If chars were (by default) unsigned, they could be made signed...

Um, excuse me?  "signed" didn't become a valid modifier until ANSI C,
while "unsigned" existed rather before that.  As of 1974, when I first
encountered it, C had neither.
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