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From: zed@mdbs.UUCP (Bill Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: chronic source of confusion in C
Keywords: arrays in C
Message-ID: <1486@mdbs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 90 19:36:41 GMT
Organization: MDBS Inc., Lafayette, IN
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This is a meta note:

Why is the ANSI definition of arrays such a chronic source of
confusion?  Was it screwed up so bad before that it will take
a lot of work to re-train the masses?

Is the current definition more sophisisticated than the old
intuitive (?) version?  Are the people who teach C unaware of
the subtleties of what an array is?

Please don't explain what the current and old definitions are.
(Chris Torek and others have spent lots of time trying to explain
this idea already.)  I only wonder can be done to make the problem 
more readily understood.

Zed Smith
pur-ee!mdbs!zed (formely mdbs!wsmith)
(personal opinion only)