Re: Pass by Reference
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Dec 18, 2014
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dcuny said...
I'm writing an application that has multiple digital filters. Calling the filter:
- Calculates a filtered result, and
- Updates the filter's history.
That is, two different things are being modified here - there's a result returned from the function call, and as a side-effect, a data structure gets updated.
Using the eumem.e library, one can emulate this less-than-safe programming practice. When using this library, you acquire a reference to some 'global' memory object and can pass that reference to routines.
include sys/eumem.e object aFilter = eumem:malloc({0,0}) -- Initialze new structure with a couple of zero values. function do_filter( object theFilter, atom theInput ) atom theOutput = ram_space[theFilter][2] * ram_space[theFilter][1] * theInput ram_space[theFilter][2] = ram_space[theFilter][1] ram_space[theFilter][1] = theInput return theOutput end function atom theResult = do_filter( aFilter, theInput )
dcuny said...
But it raises the question: why do I have to jump through these hoops at all? Why can't OpenEuphoria let me pass values by reference like just about any other language?
Because its more well behaved than other languages. 
