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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Oberon and Wirthian languages
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On 2014-04-19, Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> wrote:
> On 19/04/14 13:50, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> Access types are required no matter what :/
>
> Parasail (and some other experimental languages, I think) seem
> to tackle pointing with the help of components marked "optional",
> accompanied by specially designed definitions for copying, moving, and
> swapping. This combination is said to prevent the dangers of pointers.
>
> http://parasail-programming-language.blogspot.de/2012/08/a-pointer-free-path-to-object-oriented.html
>

>From what I can tell from that page, they still appear to be implemented
as pointers but it's just that this isn't directly visible at user code
level.

I wonder where I've heard of the concept of type checked pointers
before ? :-) (IOW, look at the author's name; I didn't see that until
well into the page.)

Simon.

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