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Article #3881Re: Indirection
From: Nicholas Weidmann
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:30
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:30
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.misc: 19-Nov-92 Indirection Herman
Rubin@pop.stat.pu (701)
> In article <id.GT2V.7OE@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da
> silva) writes:
> ..........................
> >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.
> --
> Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
> Phone: (317)494-6054
> hrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)
> {purdue,pur-ee}!snap.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
Build your own compiler and SHUT UP !!!!
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Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!nw24+ Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Message-ID: <Yf38Lfq00awCE2tEpo@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:30:03 -0500 From: Nicholas Weidmann <nw24+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Re: Indirection In-Reply-To: <Bxyut0.Jo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> References: <id.6S0V.FKH@ferranti.com> <Bxv2t2.4FH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <id.GT2V.7OE@ferranti.com> <Bxyut0.Jo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Lines: 23