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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
Date: 1997/01/15
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Date: 1997-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.852928982@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>equally if you do something like
>
>   (x = p; x < &p[10]; p += 3)
>
>you can find you have an infinite loop, all quite in accordance with the
>C semantics, although somewhat surprising.

This case must work.  Such a reference to the end of an object is required
to be treated like a reference within the object.