Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: arrays...
Message-ID: <274@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 88 01:05:49 GMT
References: <5773@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
Lines: 19
Summary: Problems with array constants

In article <5773@sigi.Colorado.EDU>, swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick) writes:
> Is there some reason why you can do:
>    int ary[] = {1,2,3,4};
>    foo(ary);
> but you can't do
>    foo({1,2,3,4});

Yep, there's quite a good reason -- just what is {1,2,3,4} supposed to be?
An array of ints?  An array of chars?  Could even be an array of floats or
doubles!  If the compiler has to see how the thing is being used in order
to figure out what it is, it going to be MUCH harder to write, much larger,
much slower, and probably much less correct!

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