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Expand Up @@ -41,9 +41,6 @@ int[3] s;
$(BEST_PRACTICE
$(OL
$(LI Use dynamic arrays for larger arrays.)
$(LI Static arrays with 0 elements are useful as the last member
of a variable length struct, or as the degenerate case of
a template expansion.)
$(LI Because static arrays are passed to functions by value,
a larger array can consume a lot of stack space. Use dynamic arrays
instead.)
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