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  1. Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!nw24+
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
  4. Message-ID: <Yf38Lfq00awCE2tEpo@andrew.cmu.edu>
  5. Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:30:03 -0500 
  6. From: Nicholas Weidmann <nw24+@andrew.cmu.edu>
  7. Subject: Re: Indirection
  8. In-Reply-To: <Bxyut0.Jo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  9. References: <id.6S0V.FKH@ferranti.com> <Bxv2t2.4FH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <id.GT2V.7OE@ferranti.com>
  10.     <Bxyut0.Jo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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  13. Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.misc: 19-Nov-92 Indirection Herman
  14. Rubin@pop.stat.pu (701)
  15.  
  16. > In article <id.GT2V.7OE@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da
  17. > silva) writes:
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  19. >             ..........................
  20.  
  21. > >Personally, I think that making indirection a prefix operator was a bigger
  22. > >mistake than any of these.
  23.  
  24. > Certainly not from the standpoint of English speakers.  As I understand it,
  25. > *x in C denotes the object referred to by x, the object "found" AT x.  Thus,
  26. > @x would have been at least a somewhat logical notation, at least relatively
  27. > easily understood by users, as well as easy for parsing, etc.
  28. > -- 
  29. > Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
  30. > Phone: (317)494-6054
  31. > hrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)  
  32. > {purdue,pur-ee}!snap.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
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  35.         Build your own compiler and SHUT UP !!!!
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