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Subject: Re: I think references should have been const by default
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> RacingRabbit@watershipdown.co.uk writes:
>
>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:42:24 -0400
>> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/26/21 4:21 AM, RacingRabbit@watershipdown.co.uk wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:48:57 -0700
>>>> Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> RacingRabbit@watershipdown.co.uk writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Any attempt to write to a read only program text area will
>>>>>> result in a crash regardless of the language.  It is implicit
>>>>>> that its read only in C because C also provides the following
>>>>>> initialisation which places the string (presumably) on the
>>>>>> heap:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> char str[] = "hello world";
>>>>>
>>>>> I suggest that you would benefit more here from asking questions
>>>>> than from making assertions.
>>>>
>>>> I suggest you ease up on being patronising.
>>>
>>> You'll get less patronizing responses when you cease displaying
>>> such an abysmal understanding of C, while believing you understand
>>> it better than others.
>>
>> Says the preening fool.
>
> James is not a "preening fool".  He's right.

To be fair, sometimes he is one, and sometimes the other.