Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bu-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!bu-cs!root From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: how has C bitten you? Message-ID: <607@bu-cs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:58:57 EDT Article-I.D.: bu-cs.607 Posted: Sat Aug 24 02:58:57 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 13:31:16 EDT References: <302@brl-tgr.ARPA> <471@baylor.UUCP>, <148@chinet.UUCP> Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci. Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.lang.c:6155 net.unix-wizards:14545 Not really a bite, but I remember when I was first learning C I was quite bewildered by the fact that you couldn't really declare your own 'argv', that is, you couldn't declare an array of pointers to fixed length buffers except perhaps by: char *myargv[] = { "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", etc I mean, argv seemed kinda holy to me, disturbing. -Barry Shein, Boston University P.S. I know argv is var length, but that would be even harder to declare!