In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > 2009/10/10 J?rgen Hestermann <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de>: > > > > It is illogical that I am able to enumerate a pointer as if it was an array. > > So the brackets do the dereferencing automatically. When I write X[1] it > > assumes I meant X^[1]. To the user it behaves the same as if X was an array > > instead of a pointer to an array. There is no difference in syntax which is > > wrong IMO. It's not wonder that many users think it *is* an array. > > One thing I think you don't understand is that an array _is_ a > pointer. Look at this table to visualise:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_syntax#Accessing_elements That link is talking about interchangability, which is not the same as being the same. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
