Re: A new programming language

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From: Mike Schilling
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 16:22

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Christopher R. Volpe (volpe@bart.crd.ge.com) wrote:
: In article <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 ???
: 
: No, Arno was correct. Auto variables of structure type can have brace-enclosed
: initializers. Please cite a constraint in the Standard that says otherwise.
: 
And even before ANSI, static structures introduced at any scope
could have initializers.

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