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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re:  sizeof
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 22:12:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 22:12:19 1985
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> A pointer is a pointer, regardless of what it points to.
> It's a datatype all by itself; it isn't a mutation of the datatype it points
> to.

You must be thinking of some other language, Algol perhaps.