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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Get this pointer stuff over with, people
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Date: 18 May 89 20:24:54 GMT
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In article <10711@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
[...even more blithering than I usually do...]
>Snide post of the week award goes to:
>>				--Blair
>>				  "Introducing N.O.C.W.A.P.: The National
>>				   Organization of Code Writers for
>>				   Addable Pointers."
>pipe down, eh? Pointer arithmetic is one of the more beautiful and unique
>aspects of C. It made no sense to me at first, either, because it was so
>unfamiliar.

Ahh, but it's not "pointer arithmetic", it's "pointer ala integer
arithmetic."  And, lest someone get the wrong idea, I actually _like_
the fact that integers can be used unfettered as the offset into
a pointer field.  I'd also like to be able to add pointers as though
they were data.  Don't ask "why?"  At this point of the discussion
you'd sound like a four-year-old.

				--Blair
				  "I'd like to thank the Academy, my
				   trainers, and Sally Field, who
				   doesn't like me, either."