Expert C Programming

9. More about Arrays

Never eat at a place called “Mom’s.” Never play cards with a man called “Doc.”

And never, ever, forget that C treats an l-value of type array-of-T in an expression as a pointer to the first element of the array.

—C programmers’ saying (Traditional)

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