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In article <KANZE.96Apr17121453@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de> kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763) writes:
>In article <3173B383.41C67EA6@rstcorp.com> "Aaron S. Binns"
><asbinn@rstcorp.com> writes:
>|> I recently came across a piece of code that reads:
>
>|> class A {
>|>   // contents of class A
>|> } a1, *a2, const *a3;
>
>While I personally wouldn't write anything like this, it is definitly
>legal.

No, I'm sorry, that's not true.  This little syntactic oddity is something
accepted by the Microsoft compiler, but it's not standard C or C++.
The part that gets repeated in a declaration comma list is the declarator,
and the cv-qualifiers can only appear following a pointer or pointer-to-member
declarator in the declarator syntax.

A little research with the Microsoft compiler suggests that:

  int i, const j, const *k;  // Declares j as "const int", k as "int *"

So the "const" above does nothing.  But that is outside the scope of
comp.std.c++.

Steve Adamczyk
Edison Design Group
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