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  2. From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.std.c
  4. Subject: Re: int const * p;
  5. Message-ID: <la9uonINNp9m@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
  6. Date: 2 Sep 92 17:34:15 GMT
  7. References: <180188INNmtc@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <181tsmINN8uh@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <15441@ksr.com>
  8. Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: positive
  11.  
  12. John omitted only the reference to the manual, namely 
  13. section 3.5.3 "Type Qualifiers".   It's not clear why a
  14. meaningful construct, like a constant pointer to a constant value
  15. is precluded.  
  16.  
  17. However Joachim, I believe your appearance, if not your const problems,
  18. could be improved by parting your hair on the other side, switching to 
  19. contact lenses and smiling.  You would then look like this:
  20.  
  21.          //\\\\\\ 
  22.         /        \
  23.        _|  _   _ |_
  24.       |.|  o   o | }
  25.        \|    \   |/
  26.         \   \ /  /
  27.          \   ~  /
  28.           "####"
  29.                 Joachim V2.0
  30.  
  31. --
  32. linden@eng.sun.com|| P. van der Linden and his uncustomary theories.
  33. Go Giants!! Don't || When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you
  34. stop at Florida...|| were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system
  35.