Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?

Andrew P. Mullhaupt amull at Morgan.COM
Sun Dec 3 10:54:38 AEST 1989


In article <5486 at sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, bruno at sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) writes:
> In article <11715 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>  >I'm POC for a zero-sized object special interest group,
>  >but frankly there has been little activity since the
>  >committee's consensus was clearly against such objects.
> 
> Wouldn't this kind of group, because of its purpose, have 
> zero members?  (Not counting the POC (which is, after all,
> just a pointer)   :-)

It would depend on how many APL programmers also program in C.
Almost all programmers with APL experience are quite interested
in empty arrays. There is a long, long litany of 'empty array'
jokes, like the following:



Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt



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