🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4ecf43$93h@wariat.wariat.org>, 
enikitin@junior.wariat.org (Eric W. Nikitin) writes:
> Bronxx (rmichl@iiic.ethz.ch) wrote:
> : NEW(p)
> : ~~~~~~
> : That means we have to create each pointer with NEW(p) before we can
> : work with it.
> : For example
> 
> : TYPE P = POINTER TO PDesc;
> :      PDesc = RECORD key: Key; next: P END;
> 
> : VAR p:P;
> 
> : What about the p.next then? It is a pointer too, does it have to
> : be created with NEW() as well? I guess not. What is it's value? NIL?
> 
> Yes, its value is NIL.

 Not necessarily. It depends on the compiler switches. It is always safer
to explicitly initialize it to NIL, even though it may take some CPU cycles.

Wojtek