On 31 Jan 2012 at 23:37, Mouse wrote:
  Well, it does have to be in the sense that it has to
be possible to
 (somehow) refer to individual chars... 
Thanks, C standards really came too late after K&R for me to take a
big interest in them.  While I can quote chapter and verse for
FORTRAN and COBOL, the closest to "knowing" ANSI C rules is writing
some back-end code.
--Chuck