Re: Confusion
Re: Confusion
- Subject: Re: Confusion
- From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:13:40 -0700
This is the sort of thing that was possible with the classic Mac OS,
a program could pass a pointer to another program via appleevents or
the like.
Ack, at 6/24/01, David P. Henderson said:
'*' is not a pointer. It is notation used to designate that an
identifier represents a reference to the location of a value. In
other words, the identifier represents a pointer. I've always hated
the way pointers are taught. Everyone immediately dives into memory
address this and memory address that. The fact that in C a pointer
refers to an address in memory is immaterial. It is an
implementation detail which is not needed by novice programmers.
Later knowing this detail will allow one to play all sorts of nasty
tricks with pointers ;)
--
Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Holy Knight/Always needs a hug
Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insane People
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