12 May
2017
12 May
'17
4:32 a.m.
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 08:03:28AM +1000, David Arnold wrote:
I dunno if it is one of its greatest joys but pointers in C have always
made sense to me.
I'm curious as to what is busted about arrays in C? To me they just
seemed like a way to define how to look at a wad of memory and they
seem to work for me. About the only thing I don't like about them is
that there is no late binding as to the size, Ada has late binding and
I thought it could be useful (I only know because Rob Netzer and I
wrote an Ada compiler for CS736 at UW-Madison that did a lot of Ada
but exceptions and late binding we did not do).
--lm
On 12 May
2017, at 07:49, Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
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But if we're going to gripe about the evolution of C. My biggest gripe is when
they fixed structs to be real types, they didn't also do so for arrays.
Arrays and their degeneration to poitners is one of the biggest annoyances in C.
And, conversely (perversely?) one of its greatest joys.