// Don’t return a pointer to something that will soon go away.

#include <iostream>

// Return a cheery message:
const char *message() {
    char buf[] = "Hello there, folks!\n";
    const char *p = buf;
    // p = "¡Hola!\n";
    return p;
}

int main() {
    std::cout << message();		// Why doesn’t this work!?
    return 0;
}