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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Point me in the right direction
Message-ID: <807@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 89 15:39:14 GMT
References: <23631@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1841@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <1841@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> vlcek@mit-caf.UUCP (Jim Vlcek) writes:
>rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes:
>
>>Another handy style guideline to follow is trying to avoid writing
>>empty [] declarations.

>                         ... In fact, for an array which is fully
>initialized at compile time, an empty [] declaration is preferable:

>double fund_consts[] = {
>	3.14159265,
>	2.7182818,
>	6.02E23,
>};

   Of course, adding:

     #define N_FCONSTS (sizeof(fund_consts)/sizeof(double)) 

   then you can use stuff like:

     extern fund_consts[N_FCONSTS];

   elsewhere.



John Hascall
ISU Comp Center