c programming style

[Walter Bright]

In article <1286 at uwmacc.UUCP> oyster at uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious oyster) writes:
>   I worked for a company which was (well, *is*, but going down fast) fond of
>making everything proprietary (i.e. non-standard).  They came up with a 
>language called DASL (*), based very strongly on C, which
>actually perverted the meaning of arithmetic in such a way that 
>"argv = argv + n" ACTUALLY MEANT "argv = argv + n*sizeof(argv *)" !!  That
>wasn't documented anywhere, and we had one hell of a time with a certain 
>piece of code until we figured out what was going on.

I've been laboring under the impression that this is how C is defined
to work!