Get this pointer stuff over with, people
Blair P. Houghton
bph at buengc.BU.EDU
Fri May 19 06:24:54 AEST 1989
In article <10711 at cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> toddpw at tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
[...even more blithering than I usually do...]
>Snide post of the week award goes to:
>> --Blair
>> "Introducing N.O.C.W.A.P.: The National
>> Organization of Code Writers for
>> Addable Pointers."
>pipe down, eh? Pointer arithmetic is one of the more beautiful and unique
>aspects of C. It made no sense to me at first, either, because it was so
>unfamiliar.
Ahh, but it's not "pointer arithmetic", it's "pointer ala integer
arithmetic." And, lest someone get the wrong idea, I actually _like_
the fact that integers can be used unfettered as the offset into
a pointer field. I'd also like to be able to add pointers as though
they were data. Don't ask "why?" At this point of the discussion
you'd sound like a four-year-old.
--Blair
"I'd like to thank the Academy, my
trainers, and Sally Field, who
doesn't like me, either."
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