Re: Struct assignment

From: Flash Gordon <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:53:48 +0100

Richard Heathfield wrote, On 30/06/07 20:56:

Serve Lau said:

<snip>

Its easy to see where the confusion comes from. There are situations
where pointers degenerate into pointers ,

Pointers always degenerate into pointers.

No they don't, they stay as pointers ;-)

Knowing what Serve Lau must have intended I read it as "where arrays degenerate...".
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Flash Gordon
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