From: mab@dst17.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
Subject: Re: Modest proposal, 3 of 3
Date: 1996/11/25
Date: 1996-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57csa5$7c8@wdl1.wdl.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32999420.53AA@lmtas.lmco.com
In article <32999420.53AA@lmtas.lmco.com> Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com> writes:
>Van Snyder wrote:
>> BACKGROUND
>> This is OK, because there are only two things you can
>> do with pointers (in a sane language): dereference them and copy them.
>I'm not sure what a "sane" language is (isn't SANE a numerical representation?),
>but I have certainly done mathematics with Ada accesses (systems programming-type
>algorithms), and would like to continue to do so. Also, I'm not sure
>what "copy" entails, but I assume this would permit access values to be passed
>to subprograms.
Humm, but what about = and \=, it is really hard to write most linked list
algorithms if you can't at least compare against the null pointer?
--
Mark Biggar
mab@wdl.lmco.com
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1996-11-22 0:00 Modest proposal, 3 of 3 Van Snyder
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar [this message]
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Joel VanLaven
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