Re: [Dev-C++] dynamic allocation and structs

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Carlos Garc=EDa del Monte wrote:

> Some things about pasts messages, not very important.
> The "or when exiting the scope", I wrote it, sorry, I was answering
> other question, it was an error when clicking at th mail I wanted to
> answer, now I don't remember which mail I was answering.
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> One of you said:
> If array[0] is logical think there is array[1].
> That's right in programming, not in reality.
> Reality: White House is whiteHousesArray[0]. But there is no a second
> White House
> If I say "I am the third son of my parents" you know there are the
> second and the first sons, but you don't know if there is a fourth, or
> we have to suppose there are a infinity? You can know previous, not the
> following.
> Programming: If there is not array[1], why bother writing array[0], when
> you can say *array?
Good. That was my point. My code used the a->x syntax, since there wasn't
a a[1].x to access. In this case, the full expression became myarray[i]->x
instead of myarray[i][0].x, since myarray was an array of pointers to
single element, i.e. one-dimensional.
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> Although vector has the mathematical meaning of one dimensional array,
> and we were talking about C, it would be better leave 'vector' for the
> STL container, because that's our (or my) first thought when see
> 'vector' here, so I read understanding one thing and in the middle of
> the message, or some messages later, I notice I've misunderstood
> everything, or simply I expected other thing. I was tempted to not read
> this thread of messages, losing some interesting things.
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