Re: Regarding assignment to struct

On Mon, 05 May 2025 13:53:10 -0700
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

Muttley@dastardlyhq.com writes:
[...]

If you twant o pass an actual array to a function instead of a
pointer to it, embedding it in a structure is the only way to do
it.  

 
Yes, but that's not necessarily useful.  An array that's a member
of a struct can only be of a constant length (unless it's a flexible
array member, but that doesn't help).  Functions that work with
arrays typically need to deal with arrays of arbitrary length.
 

It seems, C++ authorities were feeling that the pattern "struct with
array of constant length as an only member" is very common.
Otherwise they wouldn't bother to add <array> to their standard library.