Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: const in array bound expression
Keywords: const ANSI constant expression array
Message-ID: <5801@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 88 01:54:28 GMT
References: <123@peritus.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <123@peritus.UUCP> preston@peritus.UUCP (Preston Gardner) writes:
>What constitutes a constant expression under the new ANSI standard?  The
>following should be legal:
>    const int i = 5;
>    int a[i];

It isn't, though.  I believe this is what Bjarne meant when he said that when
X3J11 took |const| from C++, they "watered it down".

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint