Re: Questions about pointers

13 Jun 2004


      On 15:35 13/06/04, Peter N Lewis wrote:
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constructor TBank.Create(amount : PCredit);
   begin
  New(Self.AccountBalance);
  Self.AccountBalance := amount;
   end;
This pair of lines shows a deep lack of understanding of what a 
pointer is and how pointers work.
The first line allocates some memory for you and puts the address of 
the memory into the pointer variable Self.AccountBalance.
Yes, of course.  My sincerest apologies.

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