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From: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C idea: structure literals
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Date: 2 Mar 88 00:18:50 GMT
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Keywords: ANSI, structure literals

In article <1988Feb28.130526.4147@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>This is good.  It is an analogue of what happens with strings.  It would be
>good to extend this to arrays and other things.  For example, why not be able
>to write "&3" to get a pointer to int which points to a 3?

Actually, VAX C 2.2 allows this, although it's completely non-portable,
of course.


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michael j zehr
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