Re: A new programming language

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 12:25

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In <DF3Evn.ICt@csc.liv.ac.uk> s5sem@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris) writes:

>In article <bbkhx*h8d@yaps.rhein.de>, arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig) writes:
>> In article <42om0g$qi6@mirv.unsw.edu.au>, Avi  Pilosof writes:
>> 
>> > The one thing I hate about C is that you
>> > cannot initialise a struct using curly braces at any point other
>> > that global scope.
>> 
>> Wrong.
>> 
>No, this is correct.  Structures cannot be pre-initialised except as
>global.  Maybe you were thinking of structure definitions ???

Chapter and verse, please.  To the best of my knowledge, there is no
such restriction in the standard.

Dan
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