Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!dgp.toronto.edu!flaps
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: ANSI C idea: structure literals (and short constants)
Message-ID: <8803071657.AA11735@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu>
Keywords: ANSI, structure literals
Organization: University of Toronto
References: <56@vsi.UUCP> <1988Feb28.130526.4147@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <2743@mmintl.UUCP>
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 11:57:52 EST


I, flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal), wrote:
>>... because you can't specify shorts in expressions.  Any
>>attempt to fix this would probably be a very bad addition.

In article <2743@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>There is an obviously correct way to permit specification of short
>constants: append an s.  Exactly analogous to appending an l for long
>constants.

Not very analogous to appending an L for long constants.  Quite
analogous to appending an F for floating constants, as in the (current)
ansi draft.  It requires doing away with default promotion rules, as
they have for float -> double.  Your method of specifying shorts would
generate ints, just as (short)3 now does.

ajr
-- 
If you had eternal life, would you be able to say all the integers?