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Re: Didactic "white lies"

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Stefan Ram:

> One white lie I tell at the beginning of my C course, when
> the proper treatment of pointers still is in a remote
> distance:
>
> To explain "char *": "char" means "character", and the "*"
> means the preceding thing can be repeated arbitrarily
> often, so "char *" means "a sequence of characters". -
> Explanation without the need to speak of anything that was
> not treated yet.

Can't you limit string manuipulation to arrays

  char s[255];

and indexing

  char c;
  c = s[14];

before you move on to pointers?

My 8-bit editor cannot handle you quotation marks.

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