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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Clarification needed on Pointers/Arrays
Message-ID: <1465@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 89 11:43:01 GMT
References: <1436@etive.ed.ac.uk> <889@acf3.NYU.EDU> <11840@haddock.ima.isc.com> <890@acf3.NYU.EDU>
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In article <890@acf3.NYU.EDU>, sabbagh@acf3.NYU.EDU (sabbagh) writes:
> [Thus] something like
> 	int a[10],b[10];
> 	a = b;
> is easy enough to interpret as array copy, but it be a "high-level"
> construct that is not found in other semnatic areas of C.

Other areas like....

	struct foo a, b;
	a = b;

for example?  I see no essential difference, except for the weight of
history: arrays have always been converted to pointers in expressions,
therefore they always must be.  (No similar requirement ever existed
for structs, of course.)

					der Mouse

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