Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!bolzen.all.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Problem with array objects Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:10:18 +1200 Lines: 34 Message-ID: <90ru2aFojcU6@mid.individual.net> References: <36fce640-87bf-4e9d-9349-2236850f7666@r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <90rmj2FojcU2@mid.individual.net> <5e7a66a9-6442-41e8-81fa-e8ef10d8bbc2@r14g2000vbm.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net +dAUZwGYT9ggD8ZRL9k8qQCMfwerOXUs7cv8kDL3rposQMVtXs Cancel-Lock: sha1:HSdMNzz9Fdgr6sXKg2HEfS8OH4M= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:3806 On 04/16/11 10:01 AM, Paul wrote: > > "gwowen" wrote in message > news:5e7a66a9-6442-41e8-81fa-e8ef10d8bbc2@r14g2000vbm.googlegroups.com... >> On Apr 15, 9:02 pm, Ian Collins wrote: >>>> Hey. There's a novel point. No-one has ever made that observation to >>>> Paul before. That'll probably convince him. >>>> At last, our long national nightmare is over. >>> >>> Do you really expect someone who don't know whether the C++ language has >>> one or more standards to grasp such a clear and simple bit of logic? > >> Well, no. (Actually I was being facetious - this point has been made >> hundreds of times before, and that's just by those people whos posts I >> read. My point, which I concede to be unclear, as sarcasm and >> facetiousness so often are on Usenet, was that since Paul was not >> swayed by this argument the first 100 times, making it again was a >> waste of perfectly good electrons) > > > What has been argued 100 times before is that an char* can point to an array > of chars. That should be "a char*". A char* can point to an array of cabbages, but that does not make a char* a cabbage. > Others have attempted to argue that there is only one C++ > standard, There is only one language standard. Care to cite a reference to pointer types in another? -- Ian Collins