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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Write-only variables
Message-ID: <1517@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 15 Sep 89 00:45:19 GMT
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Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State Univ. Computation Center
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In article <...> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
}raph@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (Raphael Mankin) writes:
}>How does one declare write-only variables in C?
}[ explanation of the use of write-only variables deleted ]
 
}You cannot write to a variable in C ...

    Come to think of it, why is there no "writeonly" modifier?

    It would seem useful, and orthoganal (sp?).

    John