Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a976
From: a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: "chip" in SAS C
Message-ID: <4372@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 91 02:40:19 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> johnl@SDFSUN1.hac.com writes:
> 
> However, I do take exception regarding the error message.  The SAS/C error
> message, "Error 25: modifiable lvalue required", does indeed make sense, but
> in the same way as "syntax error" and is as helpful.  I'd much prefer
> something along the lines of "conflicting type modifier" or "storage class
> conflict."
> 
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>         +--------+                      John Lee
>         | HUGHES |
>         +--------+                      ARPAnet: jhlee@hac2arpa.hac.com
>         Hughes Aircraft Company
> The above opinions are those of the user and not of those of this machine.


It took some real digging to find out what the h___ an lvalue was. Not having
the advantage of a BCSc, and finding no references to this word in _any_ book,
I pretty much had to beat my head against the screen for a few days until I
reached that state of bliss in which devine revelations come trickling in.
-Ron Tarrant
a976@Mindlink.UUCP