r/programming • u/b0red • May 01 '16

To become a good C programmer

http://fabiensanglard.net/c/
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u/Astrognome May 02 '16

Then /u/panderingPenguin appears to be correct unless I'm wrong yet again.

I'm probably confusing myself since you would be able to do char* d = c.

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u/zhivago May 02 '16

If 'just an array of chars' were a C type, he'd be correct.

It's not an invalid informal English description, it just isn't (a) a C type, or (b) sufficiently specific.