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From: volpe@camelback.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe)
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Subject: Re: Expressions in initializers
Message-ID: <17306@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 13:39:13 GMT
References: <17270@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <760@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> <1991Mar4.144939.8311@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <17294@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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In article <17294@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, I wrote
|>
|>"The square root of two" can be evaluated at compile time, but "sqrt(2.0)"
|>is an invocation of a function. How is the compiler supposed to know
|>what sqrt is? I could have in another file:
|>
|>double sqrt(double x)
|>{
|>  return x - 1.0;
|>}

It was pointed out to me that this is illegal.                   
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Chris Volpe
G.E. Corporate R&D
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