Re: What is advanced? (was Re: Pascal to Basic converter)

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From: Grant Dixon
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 00:00

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Nick Coons <nick.coons@juno.com> wrote in article
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	And pointers have another name, they are called variables.  A variable
is simply a pointer to a memory location, which is common knowledge to
any Assembly programmer.

Nick 

I think you have it backwards.  A pointer is simply the variable to the
memory 
location of a variable.  I assume this is common error with Assembly
programmers 
because they "mov  destination <----source":-).

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From: "Grant Dixon" <dixon@dogwood.physics.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Re: What is advanced? (was Re: Pascal to Basic converter)
Date: 1997/02/16
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