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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Difference between these pointer syntaxes
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 08:35:00 -0700
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 16/08/2016 03:13, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>> If the language lets me write:
>>>
>>>   *A              // when A is an array
>>>
>>> and:
>>>
>>>   p[i]            // when p is a pointer (forgetting i[p]...)
>>>
>>> then there is nothing more to say.
>
>> Realistically, I expect that you'll continue to post incorrect
>> information.
>
> What's incorrect about the examples above? They're just facts. For 
> someone trying to get a job done, it's just yet another thing to be 
> aware of. This was the point of my document. Maybe I should have called 
> it C Pitfalls.

I never said the examples were incorrect.  Your claim that
arrays and pointers are the same thing is blatantly incorrect.
Your statements about the circumstances in which array expressions
are converted to pointers are guesswork, and frequently incorrect.
And you refuse to learn.

[...]

> There seems to be a giant elephant in the room illustrated by the 
> results in that left column. But apparently it's OK if someone 
> understands what the elephant is doing?

We all know about the elephant.  The rest of us are willing to
understand it.  You refuse to even try.

> I doubt we're going to agree on this.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"