On Monday, August 03, 2015 6:41:22 PM walt wrote: > That line declares *hostname as a constant and then the statement below > proceeds to assign a value to the 'constant'. I wonder how many hours > of frustration have been suffered by student programmers while trying to > understand the logic behind that.
Because it's not a constant, it's a pointer-to-constant :) const char *hostname; /* pointer to constant char */ char *const hostname; /* constant pointer to char */ const char *const hostname; /* constant pointer to constant char */ Is that confusing enough? -- Fernando Rodriguez
