Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: well-defined terminology versus generally accepted terminology regarding pointers and arrays Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:38:57 +1200 Lines: 10 Message-ID: <911mi1FpdmU9@mid.individual.net> References: <6EMqp.48801$9z4.15073@newsfe14.ams2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net baiRoa/f/Zrswhzs3/FNMgejTyvuiUYjWNY1yCCpx1/tCUXywP Cancel-Lock: sha1:zXYjGCrel7T4kwEowxi7SNx9gVI= 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: <6EMqp.48801$9z4.15073@newsfe14.ams2> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:3900 On 04/18/11 01:40 PM, Paul wrote: > If you have a plate of beans you cannot point at one single bean without > also pointing at the beans. So you have no means of identifying an individual bean? Does that mean you eat with a ladle rather than a fork? -- Ian Collins