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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Regarding assignment to struct
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 16:34:56 +0300
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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.