Re: Ada and pointers

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <1ope7.5943$6R6.582900@news1.cableinet.net>, Tony Gair says...
>Incidently I heard a statement by a colleague ten years ago saying pointers 
>are not actually necessary in any construction of code no-matter the 
>purpose because it had been mathematically proven so". A very strong 
>statement.... has anyone heard of this or was it hot air,

Well, it is quite possible to do anything one does with pointers with arrays and
array indexes instead. Fortran coders have been doing this for decades. With a
bit of work, you could even make your own heap and dynamic memory allocation
manager this way. But at some point you get to where you are just using pointers
by another name...

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