Java also gets this right, probably in direct response to the crufty C syntax. > (to be of type pointer, rather than int) No,the array typeis not a pointer, a

Java also gets this right, probably in direct response to the crufty C syntax. > (to be of type pointer, rather than int) No,the array typeis not a pointer, although implicit casts to pointer occur e.g. for passing arrays as function arguments. The practical difference is ... well, I don't know.