> However, I'll leave it at that before someone accuses
 > me of showing a C++ bias again.  :-)

 BB>     That was because you initialised a list of 
 BB> variables at the time you declared them. You can't do 
 BB> that in C. You have to declare them all first, then 
 BB> initialise them. That is one place where C++ differs 
 BB> from C.

Bah...

1. The proposed next C standard allows this.
2. I never specified that the variables had to be right there.
3. If it was in a loop, as I would suspect, it would be fine:

int i;

/* ... */

for (i = 0; i < count; ++i)
{
  const int a = r[i]->blah;
  const short* p = s[a].typeid;
  fread(p, sizeof(*p), 1, f);
}

Perfectly valid ANSI-C89.

I didn't see any C++'ism there.


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