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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C idea: structure literals (and short constants)
Message-ID: <2743@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 17:59:48 GMT
References: <56@vsi.UUCP> <1988Feb28.130526.4147@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT.
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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:
>Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to allow creating, say, a short in
>this manner, because you can't specify shorts in expressions.  Any
>attempt to fix this would probably be a very bad addition.

There is an obviously correct way to permit specification of short
constants: append an s.  Exactly analogous to appending an l for long
constants.
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