Re: const T **

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From: Norman Diamond
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:35

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In article <11434@ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
>       "both operands are pointers to qualified or unqualified versions of
>       compatible types, and the type pointed to by the left has all the
>       qualifiers of the type pointed to by the right."
>I don't know why the C Standard Committee only specified one level.  And all
>of the members of the committee who used to post here seem to have been chased
>off, so I guess we'll never know.

They've previously said why.  They couldn't find better wording without
excessive trouble.
--
Norman Diamond       diamond@jit081.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.
"Yeah -- bad wiring.  That was probably it.  Very bad."

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