[fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

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Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com>:

> 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

One thing I think you don't understand is that arrays and pointers are orthogonal concepts in almost every other programming language than C.

So technically, C is the one who got it wrong.

Same for "Array subscript numbering begins at 0." - which simply isn't true for Pascal.


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