"relying on the programmer to correctly keep track of the size" I don't interpret Walter's suggestion that way. Of course, I might be wrong. Since the compiler

"relying on the programmer to correctly keep track of the size" I don't interpret Walter's suggestion that way. Of course, I might be wrong. Since the compiler must know the size of the array at the time it's declared, my thinking is that the compiler is smart enough to pass the size without the programmer having to even think about it.