commonly asked questions (or stated fallacies)
Chris Torek
chris at mimsy.UUCP
Wed Sep 14 19:34:08 AEST 1988
In article <753 at proxftl.UUCP> bill at proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>Hey Chris, do you think we should combine our missives (mine is
><402 at proxftl.UUCP>) into an article for news.announce.newusers?
>We might get it into the "most frequently asked questions"
>section under the title "NULL considered harmful!"
>
>:-) I think.
I have considered it myself. (I decided that news.announce.newusers
really ought not to have many, if any, newsgroup-specific answers: it
would be better to post these periodically in the appropriate newsgroup.)
A `most frequently asked questions' for comp.lang.c would indeed be
useful. The first problem is convincing someone to do it. We are halfway
there: I am half convinced already....
The second problem is a bit more serious. Many of the topics need long
answers (`long' here means more than one paragraph of explanation).
Perhaps the solution is a series of periodic postings, one per topic.
So far the topics seem to be:
NULL (why 0, why casts required)
what does `dpANS' mean
what is a function prototype
qualifiers (const, volatile) and their syntax
dynamic two (or more) dimensional arrays
(any others?)
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