Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!mimsy!chris
From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question about type casting
Message-ID: <10168@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 01:59:59 GMT
References: <5080009@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <546@xyzzy.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 13

In article <546@xyzzy.UUCP> throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop) writes:
[regarding the cast]
>> 	((int [1]) i) [0]

>But clearly K&R did not intend to allow anything to be cast to array
>type, since casts are defined as conversions, and the allowable
>conversions do not include any that result in arrays.

Or, to put it another way, the result of a cast is an rvalue, and
C does not have array rvalues.
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)
Domain:	chris@mimsy.umd.edu	Path:	uunet!mimsy!chris