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Article #2408Re: Pointers
From: J. Giles
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:50
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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Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!eff!news.byu.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!cochiti.lanl.gov!jlg From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles) Subject: Re: Pointers Message-ID: <1992Nov13.225059.17616@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory References: <BxJzzv.4H7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <721539019@sheol.UUCP> <1992Nov12.203014.11596@newshost.lanl.gov> <BxnrI0.10M@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:50:59 GMT Lines: 18