Even PL/I, JOVIAL, and NEWP on the decade predating C had it.
replyIt was not. It just made any dynamic structures so painful that few programmers used them.
replyBut it _did_ have range checks for array access.
> It just made any dynamic structures so painful that few programmers used them
replyWhat's an example of the pain?
Awkward syntax for pointer access, for one thing.
replyWhat's awkward about the syntax? It's straightforward:
replyhttps://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Florence/en/Pointe...
You need to dereference pointer to access the structure fields, for example.
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