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From: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: c programming style
Message-ID: <718@dataio.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 10:00:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 10:00:44 1985
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In article <1286@uwmacc.UUCP> oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious oyster) writes:
>   I worked for a company which was (well, *is*, but going down fast) fond of
>making everything proprietary (i.e. non-standard).  They came up with a 
>language called DASL (*), based very strongly on C, which
>actually perverted the meaning of arithmetic in such a way that 
>"argv = argv + n" ACTUALLY MEANT "argv = argv + n*sizeof(argv *)" !!  That
>wasn't documented anywhere, and we had one hell of a time with a certain 
>piece of code until we figured out what was going on.

I've been laboring under the impression that this is how C is defined
to work!