Re: on "use", and the lvalue-ness of string literals

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From: Peter van der Linden
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 19:27

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Blair asks:
> It's an LVALUE.  This means that,
>   "foo" = "bar";
> is legal.  Right?


Wrong.   ANSI C defines and draws a distinction between l-values
and modifiable l-values.  A string literal (in fact any array) is
the former, but not the latter.

    Peter van der Linden
--
   Inventor of the Lambada-Calculus.

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