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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Answers, Chapter 1: TeX (was C's sins... and others)
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Date: 29 Oct 90 05:17:30 GMT
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In article <4119@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

>Yes, *sigh* we're all talking past each other.
>	THIS IS NOT AN INTRINSIC PROPERTY OF POINTERS;
>	it is a property of the programming language *C*.

Depends on how you define "pointers" ;-)

>To put this into C terms, suppose we introduce a new type
>constructor "pointer into named array".

C already has these. An example:

     float a[100];
     int i = 10;

     a[i];

Cheers (and don't forget the ;-),

-- greg