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Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array



On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> cheating. But, from my experience as a univerisity professor, I know
> that the 'rules of the game' are rather different for homework than
> they are for the real world. A homework problem that is of the form "
> construct a system that does foo using a bar ", cannot be answered
> with a discussion about how stupid it is to use a bar for a foo
> system.

I'm almost positive the prof. just wanted the guy to use malloc
and show some basic competence in structuring the loop correctly.

I had flashbacks of overthinking problems in college...
YMMV.



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