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Subject: Re: What do you think about this?
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On 06/25/2015 06:16 AM, Stephen Leake wrote:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
> 
>> This is a terrible idea. As compiler writer, ARG member, and ARM editor Brukardt
>> said recently in another thread, anonymous access types are evil. 
> 
> This is one place they are very useful.

Still evil and to be avoided, even here.

>> I would even
>> argue against a named access type for this, since unbounded strings are
>> available. In this case, the OP has an instance of bounded strings available and
>> would probably want to use that.
> 
> That makes them non-constant, which is certainly _not_ the intent!

Declaring the array constant deals with that.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I unclog my nose towards you."
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