What's a C expert?

[Dave Myers]

In article <4847 at omepd.UUCP> merlyn at iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>In article <338 at mead.UUCP>, dem at mead (Dave Myers) writes:
>[...]
>|    Hmmm....  I don't claim to be a C expert

   Here I go on to prove it. :)

>| 	i[a] == *(i + (a * sizeof(int)))

>...  The scaling happens during the "addition"
>(which isn't really addition) of a pointer and an integer BY
>DEFINITION.  This definition just happens to make the array "operator"
>commutative.

   I am enlightened.  Or rather, I realize I probably should have
figured it out if I had thought harder, but I didn't.  Thank you for
the correction.

>   Just another longtime C hacker...

  Just another shorttime C/C++ progammer.

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