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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Question on const applied to typedef'd pointer
Message-ID: <9759@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 1 Mar 89 09:24:48 GMT
References: <9078@elsie.UUCP> <9709@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9081@elsie.UUCP> <9748@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2107@solo11.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2107@solo11.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>How about applying `const' to the outer level? Seems natural, seems simple.

That's what happens, but it's not what ADO was after.

Your examples applied "const" to the INNER level; that is completely
contrary to the normal type scheme and runs counter to the notion of
a typedef name being a sort of "pre-packaged" type.