extern char *foo vs. extern char foo[]

[Stephen Clamage]

In article <6273 at wolfen.cc.uow.oz> pejn at wolfen.cc.uow.edu.au (Paul Nulsen) writes:
>My argument is not that there is internal inconsistency in the treatment of
>arrays by C.

Ah, but there is an internal inconsistency.  The problem is that in C,
arrays are not first-class data types.  As you note, there are
contexts in which a mention of an array is converted to a pointer to
its first element, and contexts in which this does not occur.  By me,
that's inconsistent, and is also the source of all the confusion.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve at taumet.com