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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Don't forget the comma
Message-ID: <4630@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Oct 88 00:10:42 GMT
References: <8810192323.AA21251@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <8810192323.AA21251@jade.berkeley.edu> <FSJTM%ALASKA.BITNET@jade.berkeley.edu> writes:
>Has anyone else run into this "feature" of Manx C?
>char *array[] = { "s1" "s2" };
>Now, it seems obvious to me (and every other compiler I
>have used) that this is a syntax error.  But the Manx compiler never even
>burps.  What it does do is concat "s1" and "s2" into "s1s2" ...

That *is* a feature! ANSI C states that strings can be concatanated
as in the above case. This lets you break long strings into multiple lines to
make your source look prettier. Seems like Manx does the ANSI thing
in this case (instead of giving you a syntax error).

Ali Ozer