Clarification needed on Pointers/Arrays

[Ray Butterworth]

In article <11914 at haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
> I understand that array
> copy was not added at the same time only because they couldn't find a clean
> way to fit it into the existing language.  The invention of prototypes did
> provide a (relatively) clean path, but unfortunately X3J11 didn't take it.

That's a bit of an understatement.
Not only didn't they take the path,
they demolished it so that no one else could ever take it in the future.
I've never heard a good explaination of why they thought it necessary
to take this action though.