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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Counter-proposal for variable arrays
Date: 06 Oct 2003 18:05:02 +0200
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> C++ has arrays. 

No it has pointers.

> Making obviously wrong statements about C++ is silly.

I can send you the same compliment! Or maybe we have a different definition
of array.

   char ptr1[156];
   char ptr2[156];

   ptr1 = ptr2;

Just copy the "pointer" ptr2 to ptr1. That's my point. Array is not a first
class citizen in C++, just "emulated" with pointers. To pass such "array" into
a procedure you can say:

   void proc (char *ptr);

And into ptr you can pass objects such as:

   ptr1        

   new char[12]

   "whatever"

Call this array if you like.

Pascal.

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