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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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