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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!pop.stat.purdue.edu!hrubin
  3. From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
  4. Subject: Indirection
  5. Message-ID: <Bxyut0.Jo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  6. Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
  7. Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
  8. References: <id.6S0V.FKH@ferranti.com> <Bxv2t2.4FH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <id.GT2V.7OE@ferranti.com>
  9. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:58:11 GMT
  10. Lines: 16
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  12. In article <id.GT2V.7OE@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
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  14.             ..........................
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  16. >Personally, I think that making indirection a prefix operator was a bigger
  17. >mistake than any of these.
  18.  
  19. Certainly not from the standpoint of English speakers.  As I understand it,
  20. *x in C denotes the object referred to by x, the object "found" AT x.  Thus,
  21. @x would have been at least a somewhat logical notation, at least relatively
  22. easily understood by users, as well as easy for parsing, etc.
  23. -- 
  24. Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
  25. Phone: (317)494-6054
  26. hrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)  
  27. {purdue,pur-ee}!snap.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
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