Roald de Vries wrote:
On Aug 15, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Which somewhat defeats the point of trying to make them
look the
same, don’t you think?
How are they not the same?
One way to see that they're not *exactly* the same is
the fact that
sizeof("python rocks")
is 13, not sizeof(char *). Arrays exist as a distinct
concept in the type system.
What is true is that when you use the name of an array in
an expression, it evaluates to a pointer to its first
element. And array indexing is defined in terms of what
happens to the resulting pointer, rather than being done
directly on the array itself.
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