Re: What's wrong with this?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias Hofmann 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>The string "Hello World" is of type const char*, so you are assigning to a
>constant char. For the sake of compatibility with C, C++ allows the
>assignment of the const char* to a char*. However, you should use the
>following code instead:

Not really, it provides a special (and deprecated conversion) for string 
literals to char*, this conversion is not permitted except in very 
special contexts and certainly does not generalise as a conversion from 
char const * to char*


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