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Article #3871Indirection
From: Herman Rubin
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:58
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:58
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In article <id.GT2V.7OE@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
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>Personally, I think that making indirection a prefix operator was a bigger
>mistake than any of these.
Certainly not from the standpoint of English speakers. As I understand it,
*x in C denotes the object referred to by x, the object "found" AT x. Thus,
@x would have been at least a somewhat logical notation, at least relatively
easily understood by users, as well as easy for parsing, etc.
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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