Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:05:41 -0600 Message-ID: <4EBA0A25.1075@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:05:41 -0500 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Array of Integers ? References: <4eb8df96$0$281$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <0.37f60e84176a3ca268ae.20111109005701GMT.87y5vq2jvm.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.219.131 X-Trace: sv3-3DjqtdRe9fT4x7nZ8bF5V1E4Oe5czrzxpLqc6pWTcXiI3CJalwx0x8PBidf5dtgc0JkK9KL6LLqXTsv!i31WJ8icePBGIdHWS66MHbWDM+Kfc5V/K+gTyfmaqH2uzfRv/nHH2jXacuXL/bloV5AZXZpYLKfa!pKhxluJtg3k= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1884 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:12939 Ben Bacarisse wrote: > > Keith Thompson writes: > > C does have array values; it just doesn't let you manipulate them > > directly in most cases. The standard's definition of the word > > "value" (C99 3.17) is "precise meaning of the contents of an object > > when interpreted as having a speciļ¬c type". Nothing in that > > definition excludes arrays. > > That definition is effectively useless. The standard says "An initializer specifies the initial value stored in an object." Which leads me to believe that an initializer for an array, specifies the initial value stored in the array. -- pete