Re: Almost no pointers (was: Pragmatic Requirements Summary : update)

Matt Lawrence <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Aug 2003 09:30:51 -0500 (CDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.pragmatic
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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Mário Amado Alves wrote:

> To me it's clear Pragmatic should allow pointers. I proposed the 
> following as a way to keep it simple but elegant (not ugly).
> 
> Address values are implementation-dependent.
> 
> Any addressable entity has an address_of method.
> 
> A function exists that accepts an address and returns the value 
> addressed. An error is indicated if the address is not valid.

Ok, from a human standpoint it will be much easier to not use the 
"address_of" method unless required.  That's a good solution.

-- Matt

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