Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Compile-time initialization (was Re: Is this bad programming?)
Message-ID: <1990Aug12.045029.9783@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug8.100614.1223@resam.dk> <17300@haddock.ima.isc.com> <2157@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 90 04:50:29 GMT

In article <2157@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> brucee@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans) writes:
>What about allowing initialization by assignment?
>
>	char errortext[3][40];
>	...
>	errortext[0] = "234567890123456789012345678901234567890";

The idea has merit, but *please* find a different syntax.  It is already
a royal pain to parse C declarations because you can't tell what's going
on until the middle of the declaration.  I like the labels inside an
initializer list better.
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