12 May
2017
12 May
'17
5:44 a.m.
On Thu, 11 May 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote:
But wouldn't that imply you didn't need to
use the * when referencing
the actual value?
For example, if you do this:
char *p;
char c;
The correct way to get the character it's pointing to dereference like
this:
c=*p;
If the type was char* (not char)
Wouldn't that imply I wouldn't need the * to dereference the pointer?
No, because you'd be assigning the contents i.e. the address (or however
references are implemented on a given architecture) to a character;
whether the fundamental type is "char*" or ("mostly char but it's
really a
pointer") is the same.
Then again, I learned ALGOLW (and PASCAL) before I learned C, and it has a
"REFERENCE" type...
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