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In article <BxKvEy.Fnq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
   Let me repeat that I am assuming separate compilation, and only
   communication blocks to integrate the modules.  The unit calling
   the function refilling the buffer knows only how to find the
   function identifier and enough of the buffer descriptor to use the
   buffer and to know how much is left in it. 

This has absolutely no bearing on the issue.

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   Now indirection (pointers) gives an easy way to do this.  None of
   the critics of pointers have come up with anything not more clumsy
   in implementation.

As has already been pointed out, any language that has procedures as
first class types can do this without explicit pointers (Algol 68,
Scheme and ML come to mind but there are plenty of others).  If the
implementation uses pointers, fine, however there is no need for me
the user to have to deal with this.  There is little point in me
giving an example in any of these languages as I refuse to use two
characters names and as such the code will probably be labelled
"verbose" and unreadable by Herman.

bevan