Timeline for What's a nice explanation for pointers?
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| Dec 2, 2010 at 0:15 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki | ||
| Dec 2, 2010 at 0:04 | history | edited | Gary | CC BY-SA 2.5 | Removed the NULL terminators |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 0:04 | comment | added | Gary | Edited to remove the \0 terminators because I couldn't sleep at night thinking about this answer lurking on the Internet. | |
| Nov 21, 2010 at 19:15 | comment | added | Gary | @raimesh I can't remember the title but it had a big yellow C on the front. And it may not have recommended the NUL - that could just be my poor memory. It's been a long time since I've done any C in anger so I wouldn't read too much into it. | |
| Nov 21, 2010 at 12:33 | comment | added | Rob Gilliam | 1991? That's not old for a C language manual - the 1st edition of K&R was published in 1978! Just intrigued that there was ever a manual out there that suggested you needed to put \0 at the end of your string constants. (Actually, looking at it again, did you mean to put \n?) | |
| Nov 15, 2010 at 10:28 | comment | added | Gary | @raimesh A very old one (around 1991). Can't remember which. | |
| Nov 15, 2010 at 9:53 | comment | added | Rob Gilliam | Which manual were you using that added extra NUL characters at the end of your strings? | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 12:19 | comment | added | Gary | Edited article to support OP requirements. | |
| Nov 11, 2010 at 22:43 | history | edited | Gary | CC BY-SA 2.5 | More formatting |
| Nov 11, 2010 at 22:37 | history | edited | Gary | CC BY-SA 2.5 | Much more detail on the path to "post-pointer" |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 21:04 | comment | added | Mike Dunlavey | ++ That's more or less the way I taught the subject. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 17:30 | history | answered | Gary | CC BY-SA 2.5 |