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From: bs@alice.UUCP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: const applied to arrays in C++
Summary: of course
Message-ID: <8149@alice.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 88 13:17:08 GMT
References: <658@paris.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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Your example
  
 > const int array[] = {4,5,6,7,8};
 > 
 > main() {
 >    array[3] = 8;
 > }

gives me this (using cfront)

"", line 4: error: assignment to  constant

The declaration is correct and so is the compiler's response to the assignment

This question is one that is answered quite clearly in the manual.