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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Difference between these pointer syntaxes
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 18/08/2016 02:01, Keith Thompson wrote:
[...]
>> But since you refuse to understand how C arrays actually work, I won't
>> bother discussing with you how they *could* work in some C-like
>> language.
>
> Can you please stop treating me like a cretin. (BTW I've been designing 
> and implementing C-like languages for 35 years.)
>
> I get how C arrays work. What I hadn't appreciated until now was the 
> degree by which they have adversely affected the language. (I thought it 
> was bad; it's actually worse.)

If you still believe that C arrays are really pointers, you don't
understand C arrays.

[...]

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