In article <2700 at solo8.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes: >Why weren't function pointers handled the way below? > > int foo(), (*bar)() = &foo; > >ANSI has fixed this, right? ... and does ANSI permit the following ? int this[100], *that = &this; I was under the impression that there was a symmetry between functions and arrays.