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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-15 06:37:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-dallas!news-in-dallas.newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <1ope7.5943$6R6.582900@news1.cableinet.net> Subject: Re: Ada and pointers Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:37:28 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:37:28 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11946 Date: 2001-08-15T13:37:28+00:00 List-Id: 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... --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com