[Coco] help me out please

[Bob Devries]

Thanks, guys,

Mark was of course, correct. I should have made the declaration global. With 
that it compiles correctly.

I knew I'd made a simple mistake, but couldn't see it.

Regards, Bob Devries

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark McDougall" <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] help me out please


> Bob Devries wrote:
>
>> char *ending[4]={"th","st","nd","rd"};
>
>> For the life of me I can't remember the work-around. I believe this to be 
>> a limitation in the K & R compilers. Sadly I'm without almost all my 
>> reference books here in the Philippines.
>
> In K&R C, only static and global arrays can be auto-initialised. And you 
> can also omit the array size in the declaration, which improves 
> maintainabilty.
>
> I'm going to take a stab in the dark here, but purely from the code 
> snippet you have given, I suspect that "ending" is actually const and 
> should probably be global/static anyway?!?
>
> Regards,
>
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