`ref T` should be a type!!
Rubn
where at is.this
Wed Apr 3 20:03:52 UTC 2019
On Tuesday, 2 April 2019 at 08:11:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/1/2019 5:55 PM, Atila Neves wrote:
>> Factually incorrect.
>
> I suspect Rubn has confused the syntactical conflation of
> arrays with pointers in C, and the implicit coercion of arrays
> to pointers, as them being the same. They simply aren't the
> same, as they are semantically separated by one level of
> indirection.
I have not said they are the same, do regex search of "the same",
and you will see only you and someone else have said this
formation of words.
> I wrote an article about it calling this "C's Biggest Mistake",
> as this has led to decades of crashes and malware infestations:
>
> https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b44.html
Yes arrays only being able to be represented as pointers is
indeed a downfall of C/C++.
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