[rescue] Cooling (Long Message, sorry)

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Apr 18 18:57:36 CDT 2002


On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:09:17PM -0700, David Passmore wrote:
> I don't use arrays at all. Well, I should say that I don't use array
> 'types', except in the context of strings being an array of null-terminated
> characters, which is the only time I will use variable[subscript] notation.
> Otherwise, it is a glob of memory with a pointer of a certain type, and I
> will reference a position in that memory via pointer + num. Really the same
> thing, but a style difference.

Ack.  Pointer arithmatic seems to be generally considered bad, except for
when you are doing assembly programming.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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