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Subject: Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> writes:
>> C has structs and arrays.  That's what's needed.
> Well, C doesn't really have arrays ;-).

Well, no, C really does have arrays.  You're confused because C also has
a connection between pointer arithmetic and arrays.  But C does also have
plain old arrays.  If I do array accesses like:

int
myfunc(void)
{
    int a[4][4];
    int x, y;

    for (x = 0; x < 4; ++x) {
	for (y = 0; y < 4; ++y) {
	    a[x][y] = x*y;
	}
    }
}

a[] is *not* an array of pointers.  a[1][2] is calculated in the
classic Fortran style by scaling the indices of each subscript of
the multi-dimensional array.

-- 
Andy Valencia
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