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- From: Brenda <g051286>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: What is &Variable (declared as: char Variable[10])?
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 15:02:57 GMT
- Organization: GTE Laboratories Incorporated
- Message-ID: <4hf0n1$hca@ceylon.gte.com>
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- danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
- >Brenda <g051286> writes:
- >
- >>So again I say, myarray is DEFINITELY a pointer (i.e. address in memory).
- >
- >And I say: you're DEFINITELY an idiot.
- >
- >I can understand people making mistakes (especially very common ones)
- >but I cannot understand people insisting in their mistakes, after half
- >a dozen attempts to explain why they were mistaken have been made.
- >
- >Read the FAQ, read it again, read it one more time and if you still
- >believe that arrays are pointers try to avoid this newsgroup in the
- >future. You'll be mercilessly flamed.
- >
- >Dan
- >--
- >Dan Pop
- >CERN, CN Division
- >Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
- >Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
-
-
- Gee, thanks Dan for that constructive criticism. Contrary to what you
- believe, dozens of posts had not appeared on my news server when I made
- my response, only one had - and don't bother to tell me to wait for the
- responses, I know that too. Once I read the responses and the faq, I
- admitted I was wrong - end of story.
-
- In the future if you want to call me an idiot, do so at BSmith7331@aol.com.
- And in case you missed my post on the incorrect definitions of arrays and
- pointers that was in my college text:
-
- From "A Book on C" (Kelley & Pohl, copyright 1990, pg. 29)
- "In C, a string is an array of characters, and an array name by itself is a
- pointer. Because of this, the concepts of arrays, strings, and pointers are
- intimately related. A pointer is just an address of an object in memory..."
-
-