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>  /* Written 4:17 pm Mar 20, 1990 by preston@titan.rice.edu in comp.lang.misc*/
>  In article <5200048@m.cs.uiuc.edu> robison@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>  
>  >Can anyone clue me as to the basis for pointer paranoia?
>  
>  Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean I'm stoopid.
>  
   [Followed by examples of pointer arithmetic and commentary that 
   pointer operations may take more than one machine instruction.]

This is a curiously counter-revolutionary argument against pointer 
arithmetic.  Every other argument that I've seen has said that pointers are 
a too *low-level* construct.  The remarks about hidden multiplications
in pointer addition apply equally well to array indexing, so I fail
to see why pointers are any more demonic than arrays.  I grant the 
objection to pointer subtraction.  I tend to avoid it for exactly the 
reasons given.

- Arch D. Robison