pointer
rs2010
My name is rais,095446. I have a question:
What is pointer? Can we go without using pointer in Turbo C.
your reply will be very welcome.
Regards
Rais
Alexander Bartolich
> [...] What is pointer?
The Pointer, often called the English Pointer, is a breed of dog
developed as a gun dog.
> Can we go without using pointer in Turbo C.
Sure. As the name implies, C is for cats.
--
Nick Keighley
> My name is rais,095446.
does your mother call you that?
> I have a question:
>
> What is pointer? Can we go without using pointer in Turbo C.
is this homework? That is is it a question set as a part of a course
of instruction? It's a very elementary question and you be better
checking your course notes or reading your text book.
Almost any feature of C can be "done without"; but C would be very
impoverished if you didn't use pointers. Why discard a useful tool?
Richard Bos
> My name is rais,095446. I have a question:
So do I.
Would you please post the email address of your teacher at IUT here? The
one who led you to ask this question in this newsgroup, I mean. We have
a message for him.
Richard
osmium
> My name is rais,095446. I have a question:
>
> What is pointer? Can we go without using pointer in Turbo C.
Your question is addressed in section 7 of the link provided. Note also the
various kinds of end notes at the bottom of the page, for further
information. For a question such as this, the answer does not depend on the
particular compiler. Turbo is the name of an (obsolete) *product*.
Pointers are a fundamental part of the language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
Nick
There's something very strange about them in that they're all formatted
in just the same way as well. It seems a strange and not particularly
interesting troll, but it also seems a very strange piece of "real"
activity, in that it almost looks as though everybody has been given a
template to fill in, yet have all used different questions.
Most odd.
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Richard
+1 idiot point there Rich. We are all super impressed. The fact that
this is a C programming group and people coming here look for help
didn't cross your mind at all did it? How do you think people do their
homework? Guess?
If you have something worthwhile to add please do. Otherwise better to
shut up at the risk of yourself sounding like a self important net
nanny.
--
"Avoid hyperbole at all costs, its the most destructive argument on
the planet" - Mark McIntyre in comp.lang.c
Rob Kendrick
Richard <rgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you think people do their homework? Guess?
In this case, by reading the first chapter or two of pretty much any
text book on the subject?
B.
Kenny McCormack
Richard <rgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
...
>+1 idiot point there Rich. We are all super impressed. The fact that
>this is a C programming group and people coming here look for help
>didn't cross your mind at all did it? How do you think people do their
>homework? Guess?
>
>If you have something worthwhile to add please do. Otherwise better to
>shut up at the risk of yourself sounding like a self important net
>nanny.
Yes. Well done.
Like a lot of CLC schticks, this one ("let me email your professor") was
funny the first 1,000 times it was done.
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(This discussion group is about C, ...)
Wrong. It is only OCCASIONALLY a discussion group
about C; mostly, like most "discussion" groups, it is
off-topic Rorsharch revelations of the childhood
traumas of the participants...
Richard
Or by discussing things with people who purport to help.
Sheesh.
Why are you here? Id helping people with homework more destructive then
helping a supposedly professional programmer gain pay rises for being
competent?
Sjouke Burry
Seebs
> ral...@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) writes:
>
>> rs2010 <rais...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My name is rais,095446. I have a question:
>>
>> So do I.
>>
>> Would you please post the email address of your teacher at IUT here? The
>> one who led you to ask this question in this newsgroup, I mean. We have
>> a message for him.
>>
>> Richard
>
> +1 idiot point there Rich. We are all super impressed. The fact that
> this is a C programming group and people coming here look for help
> didn't cross your mind at all did it? How do you think people do their
> homework? Guess?
I usually started by looking at the book, or attending class.
But thanks for posting something mind-numbingly stupid, demonstrating
that you don't have enough capacity for abstract thought to recognize
the pattern when several people a day post identically formatted
questions for a week or two.
This is useful to me, because I'm trying out a new newsreader and I
hadn't thought to import my old killfile.
-s
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Richard
> On 2010-04-18 11:19:32 -0500, Richard said:
>
>> ral...@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) writes:
>>
>>> rs2010 <rais...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My name is rais,095446. I have a question:
>>>
>>> So do I.
>>>
>>> Would you please post the email address of your teacher at IUT here? The
>>> one who led you to ask this question in this newsgroup, I mean. We have
>>> a message for him.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>
>> +1 idiot point there Rich. We are all super impressed. The fact that
>> this is a C programming group and people coming here look for help
>> didn't cross your mind at all did it? How do you think people do their
>> homework? Guess?
>
> I usually started by looking at the book, or attending class.
That's nice. But what makes you think anyone is at all interested in
that. You know NOTHING about the poster.
>
> But thanks for posting something mind-numbingly stupid, demonstrating
> that you don't have enough capacity for abstract thought to recognize
> the pattern when several people a day post identically formatted
> questions for a week or two.
Way for the entire point to go flying past your self important
head. If it is so obvious then IGNORE it. If you have something to offer
the poster then do so. Else STFU.
>
> This is useful to me, because I'm trying out a new newsreader and I
> hadn't thought to import my old killfile.
>
> -s
Let me get this straight : you think this is NOT a good place to ask
questions about the C programming language? I realise you're a self
inflated dick head, but really, I am surprised that even you think this
is not a good place to ask questions about C. Is it only for you to
curry favour with Heathfield and the top table?
You and your ilk have ruined this NG.
Nick
> In article <oevr97-...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Richard <rgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Let me get this straight : you think this is NOT a good place to ask
>> questions about the C programming language? I realise you're a self
>> inflated dick head, but really, I am surprised that even you think this
>> is not a good place to ask questions about C. Is it only for you to
>> curry favour with Heathfield and the top table?
>
> Brown-noser #2 is back. There's only Twinkle-toes missing now.
Yes, and the only reason I've read a word from any of the three is
because you've quoted them. Why?
Nick Keighley
> Rob Kendrick <n...@rjek.com> writes:
> > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:19:32 +0200
> > Richard <rgrd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> How do you think people do their homework? Guess?
read the lecture notes, read the text book, think.
> > In this case, by reading the first chapter or two of pretty much any
> > text book on the subject?
>
> Or by discussing things with people who purport to help.
and being given the answer helps how?
> Sheesh.
>
> Why are you here? Id helping people with homework more destructive
well it doesn't help him.
> then
> helping a supposedly professional programmer gain pay rises for being
> competent?
no idea what this means.
I also notice you made not attempt to answer his question.
"what is a pointer" is a pretty fundamental question. K&R have a
reasonable stab at answering the question, in conjuction with
explainign the rest of the C programming language. I contemplated
givinga short answer but realised I had no idea what he knew. What
"model" of computioan does he have. Does he understand memory as a
series of pigeon holes? Does he have an idea what a variable is or an
assignment? Do I start with The Four Boxes?
The length of the bootstrap needed to answer the question just didn't
seem worth it.
And why isn't the course he's doing addressign these questions anyway?
What are you some sort of Net Nanny?
Nick Keighley
> Tim Streater <timstrea...@waitrose.com> writes:
> > Brown-noser #2 is back. There's only Twinkle-toes missing now.
>
> Yes, and the only reason I've read a word from any of the three is
> because you've quoted them. Why?
you've put them in your killfile?
Nick Keighley
wrote:
I dreamed I had a dog named Bach
Bill Cunningham
> +1 idiot point there Rich. We are all super impressed. The fact that
> this is a C programming group and people coming here look for help
> didn't cross your mind at all did it?
Indeed.
How do you think people do their
> homework? Guess?
I guess.
Bill Cunningham
> Let me get this straight : you think this is NOT a good place to ask
> questions about the C programming language?
No.
Richard
> Richard wrote:
>
>> Let me get this straight : you think this is NOT a good place to ask
>> questions about the C programming language?
>
> No.
Assuming you mean "no its not a good place to ask" ... For once you're
right "new" Bill.
>
> I realise you're a self
>> inflated dick head, but really, I am surprised that even you think
>> this is not a good place to ask questions about C. Is it only for you
>> to curry favour with Heathfield and the top table?
>>
>> You and your ilk have ruined this NG.
>
--
Richard Bos
> ral...@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) writes:
>
> > Would you please post the email address of your teacher at IUT here? The
> > one who led you to ask this question in this newsgroup, I mean. We have
> > a message for him.
> +1 idiot point there Rich. We are all super impressed. The fact that
> this is a C programming group and people coming here look for help
> didn't cross your mind at all did it? How do you think people do their
> homework? Guess?
Yes, <noname>, we already know that you were an incompetent student who
had to cheat and "borrow" other students' homework answers to get a
passing grade. No need to emphasise it.
Most of us, by the way, learned to read our textbooks.
Richard
Richard Bos
> ral...@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) writes:
>
> > rs2010 <rais...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> My name is rais,095446. I have a question:
> >
> > So do I.
> >
> > Would you please post the email address of your teacher at IUT here? The
> > one who led you to ask this question in this newsgroup, I mean. We have
> > a message for him.
>
> There's something very strange about them in that they're all formatted
> in just the same way as well. It seems a strange and not particularly
> interesting troll, but it also seems a very strange piece of "real"
> activity, in that it almost looks as though everybody has been given a
> template to fill in, yet have all used different questions.
My guess would rather be that it's the teacher who has the template, and
the textbook full of elementary questions.
Richard