21 Feb
2002
21 Feb
'02
3:29 a.m.
da Silva, Joe wrote:
Frank is right. Just like you can't have "file" value parameters, you also can't have "store pointer" value parameters, only var parameters.
That's not what I said! I said that it's not uncommon to pass a directly allocated (i.e., "store") pointer by value, so I'm not convinced of the distinction between store and reference pointers. I wrote:
: Though I'm not sure why the distinction between store and reference : pointers is necessary. Why not make all pointers the same, and when : one pointer to an object is disposed of, all the other ones are : invalidated?
Frank
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