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From: randolph@ektools.UUCP (Gary L. Randolph)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another silly question
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Date: 23 May 89 14:58:23 GMT
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In article <194@mole-end.UUCP> mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile) writes:
>Are you saying that  2[ "hello" ]  is not the same as  "hello"[ 2 ] ?  If
>so, you are wrong. ...
>
>If your compiler rejects  "hello"[ 2 ]  it is broken.

I agree with Mark T, but more importantly, this question was answered
a day or two ago by Andrew Koenig.  I am an avid reader of all of Andrew's
works (C & C++).  I have learned much easily from this reading.  He says,
as does the reference manual that commutation applies, therefore IT DOES.
:-)

                         Gary L. Randolph