From: KLINIK Markus STD2-G (AREVA NP GmbH) (Markus.Klinik_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-28 02:50:58
> (The C family of languages is broken in that
> it treats arrays as pointers with funny settings. And even
> that breakage is broken because it uses that treatment only
> 90% of the time; the other 10% of uses treat arrays and
> pointers differently [e.g. extern], and you probably found
> one of them.)
>
Might be a bit OT, but that reminds me of a classical paper from 1966
(Peter Landin, "The next 700 Programming Languages"):
"For most programming languages there are certain
statements of the kind, "There is a systematic equivalence
between pieces of program like this, and pieces like that,"
that nearly hold but not quite."
Just something that came to my mind.