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Asked: 2026-06-17T22:25:32+00:00

Somewhere I read that a professor claimed that there is some inconsistency in the

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Somewhere I read that a professor claimed that there is some inconsistency in the C programming langauge. Is this correct and if so, what is it?

I believe that I remember that the argument the professor put forward was that there was something you could do with one type (maybe char) but not with another (maybe int) and that for consistency it should be possible to do something that you actually can’t with C.

Do you know what I mean here or is there no support for this notion?

Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3486059/inconsistency-in-programming-languages

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  1. Editorial Team
    char str[] = "Hello";
const char *str2 = "World";

    If I understand you correctly, the above are 2 features that work meaningfully only for char

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