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From: nagel@blanche.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Null revisited (briefly)
Keywords: NULL
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Date: 1 Mar 89 06:15:35 GMT
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In-reply-to: scm@datlog.co.uk ( Steve Mawer )

In article <1783@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk>, scm@datlog ( Steve Mawer ) writes:
|In article <10138@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> diamond@diamond. (Norman Diamond) writes:
|>
|>When you assign 'x' to a character, you are assigning an int to a
|>character.  The reader knows that the type mismatch was intentional.
|
|Not if he knows the C language.  A single character written within
|single quotes is a *character constant*.  This isn't an int.

If you knew the C language, you'd know that a character constant *is*
an integer.  See K&R page 17 and 35.

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Dept of Info and Comp Sci
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