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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> There /is/ an ambiguity with pointers as you don't know if they point to 
> one thing, or to one element of an array. Saying that even one thing 
> counts as a one-element array doesn't fix that; that's just clutching at 
> straws.
[...]

One element of an array *is* one thing.

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