My brilliant idea for "any VLA type" was thwarted because of the stupid rules for array declarators in parameters goddamn I hate that language rule soooooooo much.

@thephd

Man-ray: "Arrays are declared with square brackets, right?"
Patrick: "Yup"
M: "And this parameter is declared with square brackets"
P: "Right"
M: "So this parameter is declared like an array"
P: "Makes sense to me"
M: "So treat it as an array"
P: "That's a pointer"

Unrelated: I was Today Years Old when I realized that Pam (the only visible person depicted in the above meme) is pulling a prank on the unseen person she is presenting them to.

Up till this point, I always thought the meme was that Pam thought they were they same picture when they clearly weren't.

🧠 💥

@drmorr @sjolsen @thephd -fno-strict-aliasing says hi, and also several ruder things I don't want to repeat