Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Is `char const *foo;' legal?
Message-ID: <11936@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jan 90 20:02:59 GMT
References: <25ABBF93.9618@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <25ABBF93.9618@paris.ics.uci.edu> rfg@paris.ics.uci.edu (Ron Guilmette) writes:
>Did I miss something?  Which binding is "correct"?  Why?

"char const TOKENS" is equivalent to "const char TOKENS".  If you want
the "const" to qualify something within the "TOKENS" part, you have to
wedge it into the "TOKENS".