Clarification needed on Pointers/Arrays

[der Mouse]

In article <890 at acf3.NYU.EDU>, sabbagh at acf3.NYU.EDU (sabbagh) writes:
> [Thus] something like
> 	int a[10],b[10];
> 	a = b;
> is easy enough to interpret as array copy, but it be a "high-level"
> construct that is not found in other semnatic areas of C.

Other areas like....

	struct foo a, b;
	a = b;

for example?  I see no essential difference, except for the weight of
history: arrays have always been converted to pointers in expressions,
therefore they always must be.  (No similar requirement ever existed
for structs, of course.)

					der Mouse

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