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From: eao@anumb.UUCP (e.a.olson)
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Subject: Re: have I found a bug in K&R?
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 00:05:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 00:05:53 1987
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> on page 110 of K&R it says:
>   
>     "...(argv) is a pointer to an array of character strings..."
> 
> but since the primary-expression operator [] has higher priority than
> the unary operator *, then isn't it more correct to say that argv
> (which is defined as char *argv[]) is an array of pointers to character
> strings?
> 
> -Mike Marshall       hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu        ...!hubcap!hubcap

    The point is that in C, a 'character string' is referred to by
    a pointer to it.