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- From: mjs@hubcap.clemson.edu (M. J. Saltzman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: PL/I and C
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 17:25:17 GMT
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- In article <4h2g0v$qgg@athos.cc.bellcore.com> papo@nyjets.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Luis R Anaya) writes:
- >In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960226003048.19148A-100000@black.weeg.uiowa.edu>, The Amorphous Mass <robinson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> writes:
- >|> On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Verne Arase wrote:
- >|>
- >|> > In article <mjs.825113139@hubcap>,
- >|> > mjs@hubcap.clemson.edu (M. J. Saltzman) wrote:
-
- Careful how you edit attributions. None of the quoted material in
- this post was written by me.
-
- >|>
- >|> > >|> In fact, if I recall correctly a pointer to x is implicitly an array.
- >|> > >
- >|> > I was just explaining that in C, if you have a pointer, you also have an
- >|> > array.
- >|>
- >|> If I declare char *ptr; in what sense have I gained an array?
-
- >[...]
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- Matthew Saltzman
- Clemson University Math Sciences
- mjs@clemson.edu
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