From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nevin@eviloverlord.com (Nevin Liber) Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 21:00:40 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] C declarations. In-Reply-To: <20170515004019.GJ29107@mcvoy.com> References: <6D3DCC45-B2C6-4374-83EE-F745C0AF7F36@bitblocks.com> <030d01d2cd06$c44e2840$4cea78c0$@ronnatalie.com> <013240e6-cc66-12c7-325d-a1edf4107726@kilonet.net> <20170515004019.GJ29107@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > I get that it is not clean and pure and doesn't match how other types work, > I do see that, but I also see that their choice made a ton of sense at the > time. And maybe still does. It's not the same as the other types because > the other types are, typically, small. Arrays can be big, really big. > IIRC, you couldn't pass or return structs either. Also, no function prototypes, so passing data of different sizes would have been a bit more difficult. -- Nevin ":-)" Liber +1-847-691-1404 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: