From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa7f494bf30adbc7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-stoc.telia.net!217.209.241.210.MISMATCH!news-stod.telia.net!telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [newbie] simple(?) data structures References: <2j1e30Fsrg8vU1@uni-berlin.de> <2jao1qFvj2rgU1@uni-berlin.de> <2jc33qFv3sitU1@uni-berlin.de> <1087475845.607135@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <7MgAc.96169$dP1.314202@newsc.telia.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:03:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1087556590 217.209.116.179 (Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:03:10 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:03:10 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1653 Date: 2004-06-18T11:03:10+00:00 List-Id: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote: > Bj=F6rn Persson writes: >=20 >>Hyman Rosen wrote: >> >>>It's mainly about string handling, since that's where >>>most of C's pointer manipulation takes place. >> >>And out parameters. >=20 > C++ has by-reference parameter passing if you want, so you don't need > to use pointers for out parameters. Yes, but Hyman was talking about C. Besides, the difference between pointers and references isn't all that bi= g. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson jor ers @sv ge. b n_p son eri nu