First off, I think is is an interesting article highlighting the difference between pointer arithmetic and array access. As far as the title goes, I think the a

First off, I think is is an interesting article highlighting the difference between pointer arithmetic and array access. As far as the title goes, I think the answer should be a quick and obvious no. Pointers are variables that contain a particular memory address. Arrays are CONSECUTIVE pieces of memory where the variable name holds the address of the first piece of allocated memory. Conceptually, this is very different and the article does quite a nice job explaining the low level details of why you cannot gloss over this difference. The bit about arrays being converted to pointers in functions is left on my to read pile for now...