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Article #1705Re: C's sins of commission
From: Gad Aharoni
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 08:42
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 08:42
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UUCP> Reply-To: shum!gadi (Gad Aharoni) Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Lines: 15 Apparently-To: post-usenet@ucbvax.berkeley.edu In article <3254@mcrware.UUCP> jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes: >... but I'd rather like the ability to define >recursive data structures (I think Hoare wrote a paper about this sort >of thing) rather than using pointers. I tend to agree--pointers are to >data structure what gotos are to control flow. To all you pointer haters, I hate to point out that it is exremely awkward to implement a graph data structure without the use of pointers. And a graph is the most general data structure. Incidentally, pointers do not necessarily mean side effects. Gadi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL!gadi From: gadi@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (Gad Aharoni) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: C's sins of commission Message-ID: <387@shum.huji.ac.il> Date: 11 Oct 90 08:42:15 GMT References: <64618@lanl.gov).<2883@igloo.scum.com).<2171@enea.se> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 20