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Subject: Re: C's sins of commission (was: (pssst...fortran?))
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From: sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov!ipsun.larc.nasa.gov!jcburt@ucsd.edu  (John Burton)
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Subject: Re: C's sins of commission (was: (pssst...fortran?))
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In article <63751@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:

 >> Excuse me? are you REALLY saying you CAN'T use arrays in C without
 >> resorting to pointers??? I'm confused. Does this mean that I can't 
 >> use the statement
 >> a[i][j] = 123;

 > Syntactic suger.  Try sending the array to a subroutine as a parameter.
 > Then you'll find out what the array _really_ is.  Try referencing the
 > array in the subroutine with the above statement - lots of luck.


bar(some_array)
  int some_array[3][4];
{
  some_array[0][1] += some_array[1][0];
}

snorf()
{
  int foo[3][4];

  bar(foo);
}


"Look Mom, no pointers!!!"