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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Address of Array
Message-ID: <6771@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 01:36:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  2 01:36:07 1987
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2550034@hpisod2.HP.COM> decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>However, I propose ...
>In order to declare a formal parameter of an array type, one
>would have to supply the dimension in the brackets, ...

The X3J11 committee considered fixing the design of arrays in C to be
full-fledged data object types, but soon realized that doing so would
invalidate mountains of existing code.  Feel free to fix it when you
design la)) { never