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From: ken@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pointers in BCPL (Was: The Name of C)
Summary: Alternative to Packstring/Getstring
Keywords: %
Message-ID: <233@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Jan 88 10:55:35 GMT
References: <11167@brl-adm.ARPA> <36200003@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> <6596@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Followup-To: comp.lang.misc
Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
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Some BCPLs now have a % operator to make storing characters easier, so if
"foo" is the address of the start of a string, foo%5 is its sixth character
(they're numbered from 0) and you can assign to it or find its value.

Unlike ! the % operator is not commutative.
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