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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada Smileys in C++ lib Conversion
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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:01:00 +0200
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On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:34:54 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> On 14 Sie, 12:57, Brian Drummond <brian_drumm...@btconnect.com> wrote:

>> But it certainly puzzled me to be told that I couldn't use a "const" in a
>> constant expression!
> 
> And what would that mean, anyway? How would you want to use it and
> what would you like to achieve with it?

What? Since you can convert (const char *) to (char *), it seems perfectly
in C++ style that you also could convert something that is not static to
static!

   const int I = (const) getc();  // Do what I tell you!

(Don't take this seriously. (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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