Re: Unconstrained array aggregation..sq. peg into round hole?

[kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)]

In <DoJqI0.51n@world.std.com> bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:
[...]
> >  In Ada there is a difference between Table(2)(3) and Table(2,3), in
> >C there isn't.
> 
> Right.

Um, not quite.  In C, if Table is declared as a two-dimensional array, then

    Table[2][3]

is a single element of that array.  C's syntax doesn't allow more than
one index expression between a pair of brackets.  The expression

    Table[2,3]

is syntactically legal, but the expression between the brackets includes
a comma operator, so it's equivalent to

    Table[3]

I *think* that gives you a one-dimensional array, the fourth (zero-based
arrays, remember?) row of Table, which in most expression contexts
becomes a pointer to the first element of that row.

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