🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <436p8d$2a5@newshost.lanl.gov>,
tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya) wrote:
>In article <ukmVwQ9ytxQR084yn@csn.net>, thads@csn.net (Thad Smith) writes: 
>|> In article <434pa4$c4c@news1.wing.net>, pgf@american.com (Paul G. Fox)
>wrote: 
><snip>
>|> This seems to be a violation of the stipulation that "the object ap
>|> may be passed as an argument to another function..." [ANSI 4.8], since
>|> arrays can't be passed by value.
>
>I never thought this interpretation was possible! But if it is, and this was
>not intended, the wording should be changed.
>
>What I feel is: Whoever said anything about passing by value? If an lvalue
>denoting an object ap stands as a parameter to a function, the object ap can
>be said as being passed as a parameter, even in those cases where the value
>of the expression `ap' is not the contents of the object ap.

On second thought, it is probably OK by the "as if" principle, since
we probably can't tell the difference.

Thad