On Tuesday 11 October 2005 17:12, Felix Oxley wrote:
> I hope somebody can explain this to me. :-)
>
> In certain places I have seen the following code:
>
> static const char *foo = "ABC";
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> foo = "some other value";
> }
>
>
> How can this be allowed? foo has been declared constant and yet is being
> assigned a new value ?
It is the string that is constant, not the pointer.
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