Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran versus C for numerical analysis
Message-ID: <1524@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 16 Sep 88 18:24:15 GMT
References: <1511@ficc.uu.net> <3645@lanl.gov>
Organization: SCADA
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In article <3645@lanl.gov>, jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
> From article <1511@ficc.uu.net>, by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
> > 	(*twodarray)[10][5] = 'c';

> > Now you have.

> Gee, that looks like and array of pointers to me.

Nope, it's a pointer to an array. There's a difference. A big difference.

> This is certainly _not_
> an example of a 2-d array that is done without an array of pointers.

It certainly is.

If you can't read that much 'C' correctly, then why are you even trying
to carry on this debate? I refuse to carry on a battle of wits with an
unarmed man.
-- 
Peter da Silva  `-_-'  Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
"Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?"            peter@ficc.uu.net