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Subject: Re: need help with a delcaration
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Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 12:39:00 EDT
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umcp-cs!chris (Chris Torek) writes:
>C does not have a character type. ... [It] has what I call `expression
>types' and `storage types'.  There is a character storage type, but there
>is no character expression type.

In the conventional terminology: C has no rvalues of type char.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint