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Re: Once again Ian Collins is incorrect

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On 04/25/11 11:59 AM, Paul wrote:
> In a recent discussion about a pointer to an array in the form of, int
> (*pparr)[N]. The object that is a result of dereferencing such a pointer is
> an array-type object.

As usual, Paul starts a smokescreen thread after loosing an argument. He 
started by claiming the statement

"Dereferencing pparr accesses an array in the same sense that using the 
name arr accesses an array".

was false and ended up contradicting him self nicely:

 > On 04/25/11 11:46 AM, Paul wrote:
 >> "Ian Collins"<ian-news@hotmail.com>   wrote:

 >>> (*pparr) and arr have the same type.  So whatever applies to one, 
applies to the other.

 >> I told you they had the same type

 >> Under no circumstances can dereferencing pparr access the array in 
the same way as arr

I'll leave it at that.

Sorry to impose yet another Paul thread on the group.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Once again Ian Collins is incorrect "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-25 00:59 +0100
  Re: Once again Ian Collins is incorrect Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-25 12:28 +1200
    Re: Once again Ian Collins is incorrect "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-25 10:54 +0100
      Re: Once again Ian Collins is incorrect Peter Remmers <p.remmers@expires-2011-04-30.arcornews.de> - 2011-04-25 16:23 +0200
        Re: Once again Ian Collins is incorrect "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-26 11:48 +0100
      Re: Once again Ian Collins is incorrect SG <s.gesemann@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 02:10 -0700
        Re: Once again Ian Collins is incorrect "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-26 11:48 +0100

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