Another silly question

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <2336 at Portia.Stanford.EDU>, mesmo at Portia.Stanford.EDU (Chris Johnson) writes:

> 	When "+" denotes simple (ie int/float/etc) arithmetic, the
> 	operation commutes; when it denotes pointer arithmetic,
> 	commutation is not legal/meaningful.

Yes it is.  Addition of integers and pointers is commutative.

> 	The statement that *(a+i) == *(i+a) is therefore invalid.

No, the statment is true.
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