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Subject: Re: error: unclosed character literal
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:38:50 -0400
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On 4/26/2016 5:10 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>   Maybe the person that you have quoted wanted to say
>   »Character literals consist of a *single* character.«.
>
>   But this would not be true, since
>
> 'a'
>
>   is a character literal and consists of 3 characters.

I would be willing to consider "consist of" to be a more
plain version of "expressed as" and therefore valid.

Arne