From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Dan@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: C question Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1988 Posted: Thu Jul 1 02:53:25 1982 Received: Thu Jul 1 07:05:54 1982 Date: 21 Jun 1982 10:33:28 EDT (Monday) Actually, it isn't legal C, since according to the reference manual the "&" operator can only be applied to Lvalues, and neither arrays nor procedures are Lvalues (since they can't appear on the left-hand side of an assignment statement). It still seems like a really stupid thing for a compiler to do.