Fix mistakes in the "Variables at external scope" example in the spec. #478
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This PR currently contains only the corrections that I am confident are uncontroversial. With these corrections, the example still does not work as intended in the version of the Checked C compiler as of this writing. I get the following compile error:
I could work around it by doing the initialization as follows:
Shall I make this change to the example in the specification too, or do you consider this an unrelated problem that doesn't merit complicating this part of the specification? (Shall I file a separate issue for the initialization error, or is there an existing issue that covers this case?)