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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
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> My point was if you don't like the ambiguity of arrays and pointers, in 
> C++ if you want to pass an array, you pass an array type.  If you want 
> to pass a matrix, you pass a matrix type.  In C++ you hardly ever have 
> to pass a naked pointer.

To be clear, C++ still has all the same pointer and array semantics
that C has.  It *also* has types defined in its standard library
(std::vector, std::array, various "smart pointer" types) that
implement pointer and array semantics is an arguably more convenient
way.

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