Adding two pointers

[Peter da Silva]

In article <922 at garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdaniel at uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Tim McDaniel) writes:
> In this article, ...  I show that Peter de Silva's card
> analogy is misleading.

It's just an analogy. But you do seem to misunderstand it.

"two of clubs" is a pointer. It's the second element in an object based at the
address "clubs". Pointer arithmetic between objects is meaningless.
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