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Re:Obscure C++ Features by Jare on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @06:14AM (#6887023)
Most people understand that a[3] and *(a + 3) yield the same result, not that they are actually identical in terms of language syntax.
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Re:Obscure C++ Features by the_af on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @11:15AM (#6888362)
They are trivially not identical in terms of syntax: one uses ( and the other [. Surely you mean in terms of what operation they both represent?
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Re:Obscure C++ Features by jheriko on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @07:40AM (#6887327)
they really aren't identical in the general case - this is a mistake on the part of the author. trivially consider the case where i overload operator[]...
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Re:Obscure C++ Features by CJefferson on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @08:23AM (#6887481)
Yes, this is more of an obscure C feature (they are exactly the same in all cases in C, the standard defines a[b] as *(a+b)), which is inherited by C++.
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