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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: What is &Variable (declared as: char Variable[10])?
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 96 01:18:20 GMT
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- Message-ID: <826075100snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <TANMOY.96Feb29004629@qcd.lanl.gov>
- tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov "Tanmoy Bhattacharya" writes:
-
- >In article <825539570snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- >Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >
- ><snip>
- >LK: The thing that C does not really support is the idea of an array
- >'value' (or
- >LK: more accurately a value with array type). For example you can't assign
- >
- >Technically, of course, you can have values of array types. The
- >problem is that there are _completely_ useless.
-
- Right - but I decided to avoid the issue (which I felt justified in
- doing for this reason). However I did have this in mind when I wrote the
- bit you quoted below (where I stated lvalue explicitly).
-
- >LK: The oddity is that when evaluated an array lvalue does not generate a value
- >LK: (rvalue) that has array type.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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