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Re:Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing by djxfade on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @06:17AM (#25845059)
I don't think a lot of beginner friendly languages exposes pointers to the developer
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Re:Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing by randomdata on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:20AM (#25846700)
Unless they have arrays, which are conceptually not a whole lot different.
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Re:Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing by mewpmewp2 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:50AM (#25847052)
Most of the time you don't use them or think or need to think of them as pointers.
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Re:Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing by randomdata on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:17AM (#25848196)
No, but pointers are thought of as array indices. If you understand arrays, you understand pointers.
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Re:Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing by mewpmewp2 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @12:50PM (#25849460)
What do you mean by understanding? E.g I have been using arrays productively in PHP and JavaScript, does it mean I understand them?
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Re:Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing by randomdata on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:55PM (#25851138)
If, given a[n], you understand that n points to a position in array a then you understand pointers.
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