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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Language feature selection
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:11:36 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2017-03-09, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

> I don't feel there is much wrong with the standard C method of making
> constant pointers such as I described.  Walter called it a "kludge" - I
> specifically use quotation marks because I don't see it as a kludge.
> The only problem I see is that it defines the names as macros which
> don't obey scope.

Agreed.  Apart from the scope issue, I don't see any problems with the
standard C "kludge".

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