DEC Wars
= D =
deckle
decay n.,vi
[from nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which
is applied to most array-valued expressions in C; they `decay
into' pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first
element. This term is borderline techspeak, but is not used in the
official standard for the language.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.