Re: Look what I caught! was re:Ada paper critic

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> No. Its not a long time ago (was it in c.l.a.?) I read that C arrays
> are one element more on the right and left side because this becomes
> handy in using some algorithms that intentionally might get out of
> bounds. 

You're probably thinking of what I said, which was that a pointer into an
array is allowed to be increased to point off the end of the array by one
element, but you can't access it. Not because it might intentionally get out
of bounds, but because you do things like

while (*s++ == 0) ;

meaning that you never *reference* the pointer when it's out of bounds, but
you do point out of bounds. You don't necessarily get to point two out of
bounds, tho.

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