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- From: VArase@varase.it.luc.edu (Verne Arase)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: PL/I and C
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:59:23 -0600
- Organization: LUMC
- Message-ID: <AD536AAB9668B76CD@mcdialb09.it.luc.edu>
- References: <4gh5ru$eng@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <312CCEB2.4AB7@corp.dialog.com>
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- In article <312CCEB2.4AB7@corp.dialog.com>,
- Paul Gorodyansky <paul_gorodyansky@corp.dialog.com> wrote:
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- >In PL/I, you can consider your source record as a string,
- >or as SEVERAL different complex Structures, using Based variables.
- >C has it, too, but with a BIG limitation - if you want to put
- >SEVERAL different 'masks' over your buffer, C allows ONLY simple
- >variables as items of these structures, not Arrays !
-
- Actually, this is incorrect.
-
- In fact, if I recall correctly a pointer to x is implicitly an array.
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- The above are my own opinions, and not those of my employer.
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