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From: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Milt Sagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: RE: Initializing automatic arrays
Keywords: MPW 3.0, LSC 3.0
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Date: 6 Mar 89 01:34:55 GMT
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In article <28295@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>
>this program has numerous errors, and certainly doesn't do what the
>author intended. Notice that Milt uses parentheses to delimit his list of
>constants: That makes the whole thing be a constant expression that
>returns its last component as its value. So, what he has is equivalent to
>real coef[1] = 0.536382e-5;  

Sorry about that, I think I was programming in Caspal (a mix of C and Pascal),
at the time.

>Note further that even if he had used
>squiggly braces, there is a comma missing at the end of the first line, so
>he will get a 5 element array of which coef[2] == 24.01409822 - 1.231739516;

Yea, I caught the missing ',' right after I posted...

>I am surprised that MPW C passed the original without complaint. I like
>compilers to point out errors in my code.

I was surprised at first, now I'm shocked.

>--- David Phillip Oster            --"When we replace the mouse with a pen,

Thanks David.  BTW: Have you upgraded the calender DA beyond 1.8?




Milt Sagen                    Internet: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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