Pointers and arrays are not the same thing. See section 6 of the comp.lang.c FAQ, http://www.c-faq.com/ http://www.c-faq.com/ . I doubt that C++ was ever a str

Pointers and arrays are not the same thing. See section 6 of the comp.lang.c FAQ, http://www.c-faq.com/ http://www.c-faq.com/ . I doubt that C++ was ever a strict superset of C. Has int class; ever been a valid declaration in C++?