C grammar

[Henry Spencer]

> Yes. In the new standard, multicharacter character constants are allowed
> but (of course) are implementation defined. A character constant is an INT
> so you can guess what most implementations will do.

Already do, you mean.  There's nothing new about multi-character character
constants; they've been in C all along, with the same warnings about them
being highly implementation-dependent.  I'm a bit disappointed that the
ANSI committee didn't delete them.  Oh well.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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