Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!sdcsvax!holtz From: holtz@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Fred Holtz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C Review Message-ID: <2466@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 20:54:12 EST Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.2466 Posted: Wed Jan 14 20:54:12 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Jan-87 19:01:06 EST References: <2313@brl-adm.ARPA> Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 18 Summary: Reviewer out of line The quotes you included were all very much out of line, in my not so humble opinion. I'm no C wizard, but have on some occasion used all the language items covered. As for what an lvalue is - you might as well not discuss pointers at all if you don't have some concept of lvalue. And in order to use malloc one must understand the units being allocated, i.e. bytes (usually). Sizeof fits naturally into this theme. It makes me wonder how biased against C (and C programmers) the reviewer was... Fred Holtz holtz@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU -- Fred Holtz holtz@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU