Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2016 16:23:35 -0500 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: usecases of void foo(char **b) {} References: <87ziljks6k.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <2199a2dd-d844-4f8d-bfe0-6a7c2854277b@googlegroups.com> <87twbqlsin.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87oa1yljof.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87ins5k15t.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87bmxxm6zs.fsf@gmail.com> <871syrijhw.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87a8dfmaf8.fsf@gmail.com> <878tsy9dx1.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2016 21:23:35 +0000 Message-ID: <87wpghmxig.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jrfTt642Y16rGn+nsl7yVW3qLs0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-suTR/chmTrXIO+s6NuAbXgdRnaj/LxTw3meYcj/fjuz32Zj6WK2Y4I1h/bR1x7bf+BnLIz1Qn6HoeyF!BK1QGLYiKXAfYkbQog1hpuZSH1NhHeyuXBWpIFE+GL82T1O+S4nZnyTqEZnbKqkj6TXU X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2282 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:95860 BartC writes: > On 05/11/2016 14:52, Gareth Owen wrote: >> BartC writes: >> >>> On 04/11/2016 17:17, Gareth Owen wrote: >>>> BartC writes: >>>> >>>>> Except this is not the abstract model that I want to use when >>>>> coding. I don't think I'm the only one either. >>>> >>>> Name three people who agree with you. >>> >>> A list or array data structure, with the ability to randomly access >>> any element, has been common in programming since the fifties. >> >> That doesn't answer the question > > What was your question? Or are you just being provocative? I asked you to name three people who share your abstract model.