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From: rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Re: Is `char const *foo;' legal?
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Date: 14 Jan 90 02:57:55 GMT
References: <MEISSNER.90Jan11104148@pmax27.osf.org> <12570037@hpclwjm.HP.COM>
Reply-To: rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ron Guilmette)
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In article <12570037@hpclwjm.HP.COM> walter@hpclwjm.HP.COM (Walter Murray) writes:
>[Regarding a declaration like "const char bar[]"]
...
>Here are relevant sections from the Standard (quoting from the 12/7/88
>draft):
>
>The type of an array is defined by 3.5.4.2, page 68, lines 6-10.
>The inductive method used to define the type of a derived declarator
>can be a little confusing...

Yowza!

// rfg