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Re: Pointers

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From: J. Giles
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:50
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In article <BxnrI0.10M@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
|> [...]
|> Even if you have the greater capablility, do you have to insist on
|> making things complicated by using it? [...]

Frankly, I find much of your code very difficult to follow
because pointers make the thing more complicated than it needs
to be.  I don't need the address of the function.  Therefore, 
I don't need a variable whose explicit semantics is that it 
holds such an address, and I actually don't *want* to have to 
`dereference' the thing to get the semantics I really *do* 
want.  The very fact I need a dereferencing operator in C and 
I wouldn't if functions were first-class objects is a clear 
demonstration that the pointer implementation is *more*  
complicated from the user's perspective.

-- 
J. Giles
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