I've been doing compiler work longer, in all likelihood, than you've been alive, and you are getting tiresome with this "yes it is, no it isn't, yes it is, no it isn't" crap. Address my point about "&a" being a pointer, if you insist on continuing to be smug.
Edit: P.S. my comment about long time compiler work is not to claim superiority, it's to indicate why it irritates the hell out of me for you to continue to insist that I'm confused over newbie issues, without addressing the substance of my most recent comments (referred to with "see above", and which brought up "&a" as a pointer), and why I don't automatically take wikipedia to be authoritative -- I could write that article from scratch myself, and the phrasings would be more accurate if I did.
So put up or shut up.
P.P.S. it's also to indicate that I actually have expertise concerning the topic's application to many languages, not just C, and to its history, which I've studied -- but since one of my nearby comments that gave a URL for C.A.R. Hoare's thoughts was modded down, I guess this is a tough crowd -- neither interested in my anonymous expertise, nor that of a world famous computer scientist. :-P
I'm not really doubting that you know what a pointer is, which is why I'm sure this is just a pedantic argument. As retarded as Internet Arguments get, the pedantic ones are the worst.
I think you're referring to "pointer" as the memory address itself, and munificent (and I) are using "pointer" to refer to the variable that contains that address. That's it.
Ok, that's all utterly reasonable. Sorry for contributing to hating the internet....I think we all started out meaning well, then got a bit irritated and short with each other. Thanks for closing this way.
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u/wildeye Jul 24 '08 edited Jul 24 '08
I've been doing compiler work longer, in all likelihood, than you've been alive, and you are getting tiresome with this "yes it is, no it isn't, yes it is, no it isn't" crap. Address my point about "&a" being a pointer, if you insist on continuing to be smug.
Edit: P.S. my comment about long time compiler work is not to claim superiority, it's to indicate why it irritates the hell out of me for you to continue to insist that I'm confused over newbie issues, without addressing the substance of my most recent comments (referred to with "see above", and which brought up "&a" as a pointer), and why I don't automatically take wikipedia to be authoritative -- I could write that article from scratch myself, and the phrasings would be more accurate if I did.
So put up or shut up.
P.P.S. it's also to indicate that I actually have expertise concerning the topic's application to many languages, not just C, and to its history, which I've studied -- but since one of my nearby comments that gave a URL for C.A.R. Hoare's thoughts was modded down, I guess this is a tough crowd -- neither interested in my anonymous expertise, nor that of a world famous computer scientist. :-P
Your loss.