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This "miss-feature" is only troublesome when you start to do arithmetic with chars, which most library functions do not.
Not just arithmetic. Even indexing an array with a char value will bite the unwary.
Language misfeature
Posted Jun 23, 2011 8:48 UTC (Thu) by kris.shannon (subscriber, #45828) [Link]
Posted Jun 23, 2011 12:13 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
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