Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Oct 12 02:07:38 EDT 2017


Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> That's a different type.  I think you mean that a human writing C
> (rather than bartc's code generator) would probably design the code to
> use tokenrec ** then I agree, but the latter is not just a different way
> to write the former.

Yes, I was translating his English description of the type
into C, using C's meaning of the word "array". It seems that
arrays in the original language (Algol? One of Bart's
inventions?) are somewhat richer things.

-- 
Greg



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