[TUHS] C declarations.

[Nevin Liber]

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> I get that it is not clean and pure and doesn't match how other types work,
> I do see that, but I also see that their choice made a ton of sense at the
> time.  And maybe still does.  It's not the same as the other types because
> the other types are, typically, small.  Arrays can be big, really big.
>

IIRC, you couldn't pass or return structs either.  Also, no function
prototypes, so passing data of different sizes would have been a bit more
difficult.
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