
The. C Declarations 37
SUMMARY
Having studied the basics in the first chapter the reader is now exposed in the second chapter to the
additional fundamentals of C. These things are absolutely essential for writing the programs. The
reader is made aware of the following points. Readers are suggested to go through this chapter
thoroughly as the chapter contains the fundamentals and basics.
a) Different types of characters like letters, digits, white space, and special characters. Various
delimiters used with C statements, keywords and identifiers.
b) Different constants, variables, and data types.
c) Rules for defining variables and initiali