Semantics of char a[]

Question

I recently embarrassed myself while explaining to a colleague why

char a[100];
scanf(\"%s\", &a); // notice a & in front of \'a\'

is ve

Answer 1

Sorry, a tiny bit off topic:

This reminded me of an article I read about 8 years ago when I was coding C full time. I can't find the article but I think it was titled "arrays are not pointers" or something like that. Anyway, I did come across this C arrays and pointers FAQ which is interesting reading.