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In article <875@lzaz.ATT.COM> hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
>NO NO NO
>you can have char *fred[] = "hello";
>or 
>char fred[] = {'h','e','l','l','o','\0'};
>but not 
>char fred[] = "hello";

Actually, K&R were not misquoted.  They say on page 84 of "The C Prorogramming
Language" (c)1978,

"Character arrays are a special case of initialization, a string may be used
instead of the braces and commas notation:
	char pattern[] = "the";
This is a shorthand for the longer but equivalent
	char pattern[] = {'t', 'h', 'e', '\0'};
... "

Evidently, the compilers are the ones who don't like it.

Did you say you were from Bell Labs, where K&R came from ...

-Mustafa Thamer



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