Re: Of constants and variables

Christian Luginbühl wrote:
> Florian M. Weps wrote:
>> Keep in mind that Oberon and C have different ideas what an array is:
>> in C, an array is a pointer (thus, a primitive data type). In Oberon,
> 
> This is untrue.
> 
> In C, an array is a consecutive sequence of elements, in very much the
same
> way as in Oberon.

But in C an array decays into a pointer when it is passed as an argument 
to a function. In Oberon the entire array is copied.


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