🚀 go-pugleaf

Terry Heath wrote:
> I have seen many references in text  I have read about multiple
> indirection (i.e. **p); I seen how to initilize them and so on.  The
> question is:
> 
>   Why would it be necessary to use such a pointer, and when?

/* all credit for this should go to Al Stevens of DJ fame */

#include <stdio.h>

static char *poem[] = {
  " TRAVELLER'S CURSE AFTER MISDIRECTION\n",
  "May they stumble, stage by stage",
  "On an endless pilgrimage,",
  "Dawn and dusk, mile after mile,",
  "At each and every step withal",
  "May they catch their feet and fall;",
  "At each and every fall they take",
  "May a bone within them break;",
  "And may the bone that breaks within",
  "Not be, for variation's sake,",
  "Now rib, now thigh, now arm, now shin,",
  "But always, without fail, THE NECK.\n",
  "                  Robert Graves",
  NULL
};

int main ()
{
  char **cp = poem ;

  while (*cp) puts (*cp++) ;
  return 0 ;
}

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