string is const char [] ?

[Kamil Iskra]

On 23 Jun 1998, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> >   char a1[] = "test not const";
> This line should cause egcs to flag an error.  The only
> backward-compatibility provided in the standard is [conv.array]/2,
> that allows string literals to be converted to non-const `char*'.
> Hence, string literals cannot be used to initialize a char[].  At
> least a warning should be issued in this case.

Excuse me?! I missed the original mail, but do you really suggest that all
the programmers should suddenly switch to:

char a1[]={'t', 'e', 's', 't', ' ', 'n', 'o', 't', ' ', 'c', 'o', 'n',
's', 't', '\0'};

??? IMO, this is INSANE.

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