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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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> But I think I'm wasting my time. I really don't think there is any 
> conceivable example I can think of that will convince anyone here (RH, 
> BB, GO, except possibly KT who seems to have more of an open mind) that 
> sometimes a 'pointer to array' can have a use.

Nobody has said that a pointer to an array can never have a use.  Stop
misrepresenting the statements of the other participants in this
discussion.  (The best way to do that should start with *undstanding*
what we're saying, but I think I've run out of ways to help you do
that.)

It never even occurs to you that we might be right and you might be
wrong, does it?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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