Re: on ``vector'' and ``array''

From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: on ``vector'' and ``array''
Date	2021-10-29 11:08 -0700
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> In C, the term "array" is slightly misused, to refer to the memory
> space rather than the data within it. This is a bit like calling the
> parade ground the "array" rather than the soldiers upon it.
[...]

This problem, if it were one, could be avoided by thinking of the word
"array" as an adjective, not a noun.  We can have array types, array
values, array objects, array expressions, but never just "an array"
(though we can call something an array informally).  Likewise for
"pointer".

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips
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on ``vector'' and ``array'' Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-29 01:00 -0300
  Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-10-28 21:29 -0700
  Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-10-29 04:42 -0700
    Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-10-29 14:02 +0100
      Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-10-29 06:58 -0700
        Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-29 12:02 -0300
          Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Anand Hariharan <mailto.anand.hariharan@gmail.com> - 2021-10-30 09:33 -0700
            Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-30 15:29 -0300
            Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-10-30 13:25 -0700
              Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-31 12:02 -0300
        Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-10-29 16:38 +0100
    Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-10-29 11:08 -0700

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