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Make C string literals const?

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/make-c-string-literals-const/

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Make C string literals const?

Martin Uecker has started a new initiative to ensure a better const contract for C2y: change the type of string literals to a const-qualified base type, much as it is already the case in C++. Compi…

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CSDUMMI✝️🕊️🏛️Aug 31, 2022

Ok. I spent the last few days with a crazy project:

A #stack-based #interpreted and #untyped programming language - entirely implemented in #C and using #Cstrings.

I still need to extend the instruction set.

But should I publish it?