Re: Pointer question...last for the day? :-)

mdh <mdeh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On May 5, 7:59=A0pm, "Dann Corbit" <dcor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > > Is "t" independent of s, in the sense of:
> >
> > > 1) Will it still point to the beginning of s, after s++ ?
> >
> > Of course.
> 
> For some reason I had this conceptual notion that as s is incremented,
> it causes t to "see" the same part of the original array as s.  What
> you are saying is that once the new pointer is initialized, it acts
> independently and can be used as such?

Pointers are a lot clearer once you stop thinking of them as something
very special, and start realising that they're just another kind of
object. For example, if you'd done

  int s=4;
  int t=s;

  s++; s++; s++;

I bet you that wouldn't have been at all surprised that s now is 7, but
t still is 4. Well, it's the same for pointers.

Richard