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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: C's sins of commission (was: (pssst...fortran?))
Message-ID: <63966@lanl.gov>
Date: 24 Sep 90 19:48:35 GMT
References: <9009220030.AA03386@rice-chex>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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From article <9009220030.AA03386@rice-chex>, by bson@AI.MIT.EDU (Jan Brittenson):
> [...]
| 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!!!"

A procedure which claime to be able to do array manipulation and
yet only works on a _fixed_ array size is useless.  When I pass
the _other_ array (the one you left out: int bilvet [4][3]), the
procedure "bar" with mangle it.

Try again.

J. Giles