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  1. Path: mail2news.demon.co.uk!genesis.demon.co.uk
  2. From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: strings
  5. Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 20:19:55 GMT
  6. Organization: none
  7. Message-ID: <822860395snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
  8. References: <4eg9qj$1ut4@sp115.ocs.lsu.edu> <4egglq$d3g@fountain.mindlink.net>
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  13.  
  14. In article <4egglq$d3g@fountain.mindlink.net>
  15.            genew@mindlink.bc.ca "Gene Wirchenko" writes:
  16.  
  17. >eenaya@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu (Pradeep Nayar) wrote:
  18. >
  19. >>Hi,
  20. >>I saw this piece of code in a book somewhere.  
  21. >
  22. >>----
  23. >>char *str ;
  24. >
  25. >>str = "hello world"[10] ;
  26. ...
  27. >     In plain language:
  28. >
  29. >          char str;
  30. >          str='d';
  31.  
  32. More precisely:
  33.  
  34.            char *str;
  35.            str='d';
  36.  
  37. which involves an illegal conversion hence the compiler must diagnose it.
  38.  
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  41. Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
  42. Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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