From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Question on pointers and arrays Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 20:33:41 -0800 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 18 Message-ID: <32F95F25.3032@cs.com> References: <32f92a6c DOT 0 AT ntnews DOT compusmart DOT ab DOT ca> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp103.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Demandred wrote: > > If I declare an array of objects of type Foo > And pass a pointer to a Foo into a function (or class constructor) > Can I access elements in the array in the function, like so? > > ...array[3]...} Yes. Passing a pointer and an array are identical constructs, as long as you aren't dealing with multi-dimensional arrays. Those start to get more fun. :) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | Proud owner of what might one | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | day be a spectacular MUD... | Plan: To make Bill Gates suffer | ---------------------------------------------------------------------