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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: Pointers and Arrays
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Date: Sat, 19-Jul-86 01:11:56 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 19 01:11:56 1986
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>   After five years of teaching C, I have to agree with my students that
> it makes no sense to forbid this construct. To take the address of
> something use the address operator. I have seen this mistake made by
> students from major universities, and graduates of courses taught by
> high priced consultants, so it's not just my students.

All right, tell me:  What is the type of the address of an array?

That is, suppose I write:

	int a[10];

What type is &a?  Don't tell me it's "pointer to integer" because
that is the type of &a[0], and a and a[0] are different things.