Pointers/lvalues

I agree this much: ||

This is starting to annoy me. If one wants to express a measurement, one ought to mention the scale. I suggest that the bars be drawn as ||---------------------| (min) |---------------------|| (max) |----||----------------| (not so positive)

Thus everyone can see exactly how positive one is on the given scale.

;)

/ Marcus Agehall (Trådlös)

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2003-04-16 01:44: Subject: Pointers/lvalues

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I agree this much: ||

The lack of pointers is a major disadvantage right now at times. I often use mappings or dummy objects to implement pointers now, but that has a rather large overhead.

And using reference(x) instead of &x might be good for the beginner (but I am somewhat dubious), but I don't think it makes the code more readable, really.

If nothing else, more or less all programmers know the C-pointer syntax.

void silly( int *q ) { *q = 10; }

int var; silly( &var );

void silly( pointer(int) q ) { dereference(q) = 10; }

int var; silly( reference(var) );

/ Per Hedbor ()