[rescue] Cooling (Long Message, sorry)

[David Passmore]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 07:57:36PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 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.

Ah, I remember the days before Java, when pointers were good... well, screw
'em. :)

David