In <[email protected]>, on 03/30/2014
at 01:34 AM, Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> said:
>And my experience is that over 90 percent of them have
>no clue what the descriptor logic of PL/1 is all about,
Nor should they. They should, however, understand the DECLARE
statement.
>in C you have to do by reference explicitly by passing pointers
That's by value, and one of the pitfalls of C.
>This is different from every other programming language.
Neither ALGOL 60 nor Ada allows mismatched parameters, and they are
far from the only ones that type-check.
>BTW: is this kind of flexibility - adjustable lengths inside
>structures - really useful?
Yes.
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