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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another silly question
Message-ID: <10283@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 May 89 22:10:46 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <607@kl-cs.UUCP> pc@cs.keele.ac.uk (Phil Cornes) writes:
>C does not really support arrays, and the square bracket operator ([]) is
>just syntactic sugar to make you think that it does!

Just in case this misleads anyone, it should be noted that C really does
support arrays as distinct from pointers; however, pointers are fundamental
to C while arrays are second-class objects with "crippled" semantics.