Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!psuvax1!burdvax!sjuvax!jss From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Shapiro) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C declarations Message-ID: <803@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 02:17:49 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.803 Posted: Tue Feb 5 02:17:49 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 00:46:01 EST References: <7699@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1752@pucc-h> Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa. Lines: 9 [Aren't you hungry...?] My recollection from K&R is that in practice, strings and arrays of characters are supposed to behave the same way. Yet we all know this isn't true, and that some functions (e.g. strcpy) don't work right on one but work fine on the other. Is there a real reason for this, or did it just happen that way?