ANSI C idea: structure literals (and short constants)

[Frank Adams]

In article <1988Feb28.130526.4147 at jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps at dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to allow creating, say, a short in
>this manner, because you can't specify shorts in expressions.  Any
>attempt to fix this would probably be a very bad addition.

There is an obviously correct way to permit specification of short
constants: append an s.  Exactly analogous to appending an l for long
constants.
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