Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Uncle Steve Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Non-constant initializers Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 13:52:19 -0400 Organization: Friends of the Galactic Collective Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4ae3a420e6569d9-e1a57@gmail.com> References: <9337gtFoqoU4@mid.individual.net> <2u43Sw.GXK.PAfQI@btdt.invalid> <93389uFoqoU5@mid.individual.net> <93393vFoqoU6@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="HoLaDevQz+VWJX9t0+Um9g"; logging-data="27543"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+j9DnqH8CNrK6G+UpT3Cx3" User-Agent: nn 6.7.3 Content-Length: 1173 Cancel-Lock: sha1:h5IQHF3FnUAW9wUDNgmtYarp+NM= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:3960 On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 01:28:21AM +0000, Seebs wrote: > On 2011-05-14, Fred the Freshwater Catfish wrote: > > That's a pretty good idea, but I was looking for something convenient > > to set-up global-scope variables in a library. No big deal, but I > > thought I could be clever about it. > > Idle side question: > > There's this one guy who rotates names occasionally and asks questions > that feel a lot like this, always using an invalid address, and who rotates > user agents every time he does... And who hasn't posted for a bit. Anyone > getting that sort of vibe from this? (Previous names include, but are not > limited to, "Uno" and "Phred Phungus".) I could say I'm not related to whomever you're referring to, but would anyone care? To my recollection, I've posted to comp.arch and comp.lang.c on a mere handful of occasions in the ten or so years I've been posting to Usenet. What may be happening here is you may be annoyed at my parody of code examples in netnews messages. Regards, Uncle Steve -- Should a professional politician be charged with molestation if he kisses babies while attending political rallies?