[fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
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> 2009/10/10 J?rgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de>:
> >
> > It is illogical that I am able to enumerate a pointer as if it was an array.
> > So the brackets do the dereferencing automatically. When I write X[1] it
> > assumes I meant X^[1]. To the user it behaves the same as if X was an array
> > instead of a pointer to an array. There is no difference in syntax which is
> > wrong IMO. It's not wonder that many users think it *is* an array.
> 
> One thing I think you don't understand is that an array _is_ a
> pointer.  Look at this table to visualise:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_syntax#Accessing_elements

That link is talking about interchangability, which is not the same as being
the same.