version and extern problems

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Tue Jul 10 21:25:12 PDT 2007


Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:f70vtc$opn$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>> Mind elaborating?  I can't see how this is a forward reference issue.
>> Sure. What if the string is a const string defined after it is used?
> 
> Then fail.  It still wouldn't prevent the much more sensible and commond 
> case of defining the string _before_ the extern. 

There are several bug reports marked as important in bugzilla where 
people are very desirous of using things lexically before they are 
defined. I do not wish to add to it.



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