On: Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)

[pjmlp]

So I guess you aren't confortable with the C standard.

Functions don't take arrays size statically in arguments. Whatever you write is ignored.

[habitue → pjmlp]

It's been a few years since I've written a lot of C. ufo's sibling comment reminded me of how it acts (the last dimension is ignored).

Anyway, this is completely beside the point of what I was talking about. The point is that a static size is a very different level of type system machinery from a dynamic size.

[pjmlp → habitue]

My point is that although they are static allocated, the moment you pass them as arguments, they are just another pointer.

Which leads to those beautifull security exploits.

[ufo → pjmlp]

IIRC, if you have multidimensional arrays only the last dimension is ignored so arr[3][4] is equivalent to arr[3][]. Of course, in the one dimensional case it means that the dimension is ignored.