21 Jan
2021
21 Jan
'21
4:17 a.m.
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
Nice archaeology. Blinded by my distaste for Basic , I
never bothered to try
bs--and should have. Dave has highlighted features that deserve respect.One
telling example suggests this should be legalized in C:
printf("%s\n", {"true", "false"}[1]);
That would evaluate to a constant being printed (it's a direct array
reference). Did you mean something like "...[i]" instead? That would
indeed be neat...
-- Dave