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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Initializing arrays of char
Message-ID: <3914@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 7 Oct 90 04:36:12 GMT
References: <1990Oct4.152756.6850@micrognosis.co.uk> <15674@csli.Stanford.EDU> <26860@mimsy.umd.edu>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <26860@mimsy.umd.edu>, chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
[char x[5] = "12345";]
> is a change in New (ANSI) C.
and provides a lucid explanation.  He further says
>   Since I use old compilers, I have not made up my mind on this.  I
>   am leaning towards the `not a bad idea after all' faction.

Data point:  the annotated C++ reference manual explicitly says that this
feature has _not_ been accepted for C++.  I don't know what the C++
standard will say; I'm sure there will be big fights over whether it is
better to be close to the C++ base document or the C standard.  At any
rate, for now, C code using this feature will not port to C++.

-- 
Fear most of all to be in error.	-- Kierkegaard, quoting Socrates.