Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: C array descriptor Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:07:51 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <857g44dwrn.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:31896 On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 02:12:44 -0400, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Rod Pemberton writes: >> C doesn't have arrays either. C has pointers. C has a subscript >> operator [] which uses a pointer and scaled index. What C has is >> the ability to declare the space for an array. That's it. That's >> the *only* thing in C that C has which involves an array. > > There's also sizeof. Yeah, but that's still not a use of an array in C. It simply returns the size of the declaration. Rod Pemberton