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Re: Array of Integers ?

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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
> Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> <snip>
>> Compound literals can be arrays and have values too, I'm surprised
>> nobody's used them as an example yet.
>
> They have an array value only the literal sense that, being arrays and
> containing bits, they can be said to have a value (as per 3.17).  A
> compound literal like
>
>   (int [3]){1,2,3}
>
> is an lvalue expression so, unless you put & or sizeof in front of it,
> it gets converted to an expression of pointer type.
>
> Compound literals of struct types are different: they denote proper
> values (I can't think of a better term -- values you can refer to and
> use).  They too are lvalue expressions, but they get converted to a
> value of the appropriate type when they are used.

The way I prefer to think of it is that array values are just as
"proper" as any other values.  The only thing "improper" about
them is that the language doesn't let you refer to them as a whole.
Though of course arr[i] yields a value that's *part of* the value
of the array value of arr.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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          Re: Array of Integers ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-08 22:14 -0800
            Re: Array of Integers ? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-25 01:46 -0800
  Re: Array of Integers ? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-11-08 01:39 -0800
    Re: Array of Integers ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-08 14:05 -0800
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