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I imagine most of these examples (besides strings) isn't something you learn in the beginning and when e.g. doing operations on linked lists you're pointing to
by IsTom 2mo ago
I imagine most of these examples (besides strings) isn't something you learn in the beginning and when e.g. doing operations on linked lists you're pointing to either allocated structs or null.
- jjav 2mo agoYou tend to learn it early not by choice, but because the student makes some operation on the pointer and suddenly all they get are core dumps or (seemingly) bizarrely corrupted data and they have to confront what's going on early in the learning process.