Re: "Mastering C Pointers"....

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 11/04/03 

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 04:59:02 GMT

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 23:33:58 -0500, Sheldon Simms <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 00:59:03 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 18:50:09 -0500, Sheldon Simms <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:29:12 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
>>>
>>>> Got really fed up with the Richard fellow. Killfiled his arrogant ass for
>>>> a while.
>>>
>>> You are of course welcome to killfile anyone you want, however you
>>> should be aware that Richard is telling you the truth and Roose is
>>> not. At least, he is not telling you the whole truth.
>>
>> And all the people that ARE, are doing nothing but confuse me.
>
> Ok, let me try to tell you something about pointers that is (hopefully)
> precisely correct, but won't confuse you.
>

An amazing post. Not one I can just skim and offer an intelligent reply to.

So I've saved it to my C docs and will read it until I get it.

After reading the first 1/3 carefully, it seems to me that a pointer is very
much like a symlink.

In your debt, Sheldon. Expect some more questions directly from this tutorial
in the future. 

-- 
Alan C    this post ends with    w
                                 q

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