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From: ttsung@larry.lerc.nasa.gov (Amy Sung)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: ostream&(char *)?
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.141248.7595@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 26 Jul 90 14:12:48 GMT
References: <2528@zipeecs.umich.edu>
Reply-To: ttsung@larry.lerc.nasa.gov (Amy Sung)
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
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I was following an example of reference types and found myself lost.  In the
example given in the PROGRAMMING IN C++ by S. Dewhurst & K Stark on section 
3.1, the scenario was like this:


	______________________________ example __________________________

	1. int size= 0;
	2.
	3. main() {
	4.	input( list, max, size );
	5.	output( list, size );
	6.	}
	7.
	8. void
---->>  9. input( String *a, int limit, int &i ) {
	a.	for( i=0; i<limit; i++ ) {
	b.		scanf( "%s", buffer ); ....
	c.		a[i]= String( buffer );
	d.	}
	e. }

It's line #9 that causes problems.  My Cfront compiler wouldn't let go that
line and kept complaining it's a syntax error.  I would like to know if it
is an illegal syntax or it's a compiler fraud?  Can someone please straighten
this one out for me.  Thanks in advance.

\amy

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