Re: Am i just blind? Is "array = array;" allowed?

From:
"Francesco S. Carta" <entuland@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:31:39 +0200
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Sprechen sie von C++ <abuse@abuse.net>, on 27/08/2010 15:40:05, wrote:

"Johannes Schaub (litb)" <schaub-johannes@web.de> wrote in message
news:i58gdf$hpd$02$1@news.t-online.com...

I really can't find where the Standard forbids the following!

int a[2] = { 1, 2 };
int b[2];
b = a;

I thought somewhere the Standard says that lvalue expressions of array
type
are nonmodifiable, but I can't find it!

Any insights?


Use the STL as its there for reason.

#include <vector>

std::vector<int> a, b;
a[1] = 1;
a[2] = 2;

b = a;

will work as desired


Apart that you missed the point, you posted non working code - that
happens to me too, but somebody always has to point it out, sorry.

Needs push_back() instead of subscript operators or else a properly
sized "a" before assigning the elements as you did. And main() to wrap
the code ;-)

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