15 ARRAYS AND POINTER ARITHMETIC
In this chapter, you’ll implement array types. You’ll also add the main language features that programmers use to work with arrays: compound initializers, subscript operators, and pointer arithmetic. Arrays and pointers are distinct but closely related types. Many expressions of array type are implicitly converted to pointers, and many pointer operations, like subscripting, are meant to operate on pointers to array elements. So, to support arrays, you’ll build on the support for pointers that ...
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