Compile-time initialization (was Re: Is this bad programming?)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2157 at runxtsa.runx.oz.au> brucee at runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans) writes:
>What about allowing initialization by assignment?
>
>	char errortext[3][40];
>	...
>	errortext[0] = "234567890123456789012345678901234567890";

The idea has merit, but *please* find a different syntax.  It is already
a royal pain to parse C declarations because you can't tell what's going
on until the middle of the declaration.  I like the labels inside an
initializer list better.
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