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From: upen@watarts.UUCP (Ue-Li Pen)
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Subject: String help!
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 10:28:49 EST
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Question:

Is it allowed & portable to use the construct:

char* foo(){

return("foobar");    

}

This would hopefully return a pointer to the string "foobar"..

If it isn't.. should it be allowed? It would seem reasonable.