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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Pointer function parameter
Date: 2000/10/19
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In article <cJGH5.335638$i5.5078954@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>,
  tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> >virtually all dynamic data structures (linked lists, trees, etc.)
> >require them.  [access types]
>   No. People were making those structures using array indexing and not
> access types a long, long time ago.  Look at some old Fortran code.

...or refer to Donald Knuth's classic "The Art of Computer Programming".

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