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by bigfishrunning 307 days ago
what changes, in your opinion, would need to be made to the C array type to make it "sensible"? C's array is simplistic, but I don't think it's not "sensible"...
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nicoburns 307 days ago
It would need to store a length and not decay to a pointer when passed to a function.
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mgaunard 305 days ago
the length is part of the type.
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mgaunard 307 days ago
consider the C++ std::array, which exists to make arrays behave like normal objects.

You can do the same in C by wrapping your array in a struct.

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