Another silly question

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Thu May 18 08:10:46 AEST 1989


In article <607 at kl-cs.UUCP> pc at cs.keele.ac.uk (Phil Cornes) writes:
>C does not really support arrays, and the square bracket operator ([]) is
>just syntactic sugar to make you think that it does!

Just in case this misleads anyone, it should be noted that C really does
support arrays as distinct from pointers; however, pointers are fundamental
to C while arrays are second-class objects with "crippled" semantics.



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