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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Array Of Constant Strings?
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Matthew Heaney <mheaney@on2.com> wrote:
: 
: Well, here's one case where the C syntax is much simpler.  In order to
: declare an array of strings in C, all I have to do is:

Should programming languages have string literals at all?
I sometimes wonder.

: 
:  const char* sa[] =
:  {
:     "now",
 [...]

-- Georg