Albin Jose@suppo.fi to Programming@programming.dev · 10 months agoWhich programming language is hard to understand?message-squaremessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down113
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minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoReading anything to do with pointers in C is confusing to me. Sorry to disappoint you.
minus-squaremiversen33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoA pointer is nothing but an integer that “points to” a memory location. They can feel intimidating because it’s really easy to footgun with them, but they are not as complicated as they appear :)
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months ago The pointer syntax being slightly different than the pointer declaration syntax always confuses me to no end. I conceptually under pointers perfectly but their syntax is wack.
Reading anything to do with pointers in C is confusing to me. Sorry to disappoint you.
A pointer is nothing but an integer that “points to” a memory location.
They can feel intimidating because it’s really easy to footgun with them, but they are not as complicated as they appear :)