Pic very basic C18 question

read as: "address of" ...

... because this expects a pointer (i.e., an address) ------------^^^^

e=20

e=20

I don't think you can learn C very efficiently by posting questions to ask what the syntax does. The normal and more efficient method is to read a book. If that is too old fashioned, then try Google:

--=20

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That's because you've either been looking for the wrong kind of documentation, or you've tackled this whole "learning a programming language" task entirely the wrong way round.

What you actually need is introductory documentation of the C programming language, a.k.a. a C textbook. The 2nd edition of the one by Kernighan & Ritchie, who invented the language, is still among the best.

And the right order of things is not to jump in and try to understand existing code by guessing what each letter in it means, but to actually _learn_ the language first, then apply that knowledge to existing code.

This symbol means "the one with a tail should go down from the tree".

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I always wonder why they did not use @. It would have been much clearer. After all, it was designed by a committee of two only.

ROTFL!

Thanks for the reply. I dont doubt you are correct with your comments re my approach! :)

thanks for that.

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the language, is still

approach! :)

As a hardware engineer who 'did some C at university' I found 'Practical C Programming' (O'Reilly) very good.

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May be thats why "committee of two" have also provided macros.

If you wanted to use @ for &, what do you want to use for @ ?