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Message: [QUOTE="Arthur J. O'Dwyer, post: 1690303"] const int foo = 5; char arr[foo]; Legal C++ (because in C++, const objects are really "constant"), but illegal C (because 'foo' is an object whose value needn't be stored [or even computed] at compile time). I think C's way is easier for me to grasp. And I think (but this is just IMH and uneducated O) that C++ compilers need a lot of extra baggage to deal with constant "consts," and I wouldn't want to foist all that on C compilers. Ooh, that would just be ugly and mean. ;) Except possibly for flavors of 'char', why would anyone want to walk over all values of a type anyway? Solving equations by exhaustive search? ;-) -Arthur [/QUOTE]