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From: alex@cca.CCA.COM (Alexis Layton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: ``Character'' constants in C++.
Message-ID: <26270@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 88 17:03:28 GMT
Reply-To: alex@CCA.CCA.COM (Alexis Layton)
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
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Why are ' ', '\n'', etc., defined as integer constants in C++, rather
than as character constants which get widened to integer when
necessary?  This would make
	cout << ' '
possible, would it not?  It would be possible to declare 'xx' to be
a short constant and 'yyyy' to be a long constant for those programs
which really use multi-character constants.

Am I missing an obvious short-comming with this approach?

				Curiously,

				Alexis Layton
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