Character constants

[Richard Tobin]

In article <1783 at dlvax2.datlog.co.uk> scm at datlog.co.uk ( Steve Mawer ) writes:
>Not if he knows the C language.  A single character written within
>single quotes is a *character constant*.  This isn't an int.

K&R, p180:
  The value of a character constant is the numerical value of the
  character in the machine's character set.

Draft proposed ANSI standard (May 13, 1988) Section 3.1.3.4 (p29):
  An integer character constant has type int.

["integer character constant" constrasts with "wide character constant"]

-- Richard

-- 
Richard Tobin,                         JANET: R.Tobin at uk.ac.ed             
AI Applications Institute,             ARPA:  R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed at nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Edinburgh University.                  UUCP:  ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin