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zubyak on July 2, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect i...

I wonder why someone decided that accessing "one past the end" should be fine

mcguire on July 2, 2018 | [–]

Short answer: so you can walk a pointer down the elements of an array without having to have weird code to deal with the end.

jwilk on July 2, 2018 | [–]

It's explained in the addendum to the article.

zubyak on July 2, 2018 | [–]

thanks

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