OpenEuphoria

Re: Pass by Reference

• Posted by dcuny Dec 18, 2014
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Thanks, Jim.

You could be right, but the documentation is entirely opaque to me. It looks like it's doing something roughly equivalent to declaring a globally visible heap. If that's the case, how is it much different from:

global sequence GLOBAL_MEMORY = {} 
 
-- get the next handle (index) to the global sequence 
global function malloc() 
    GLOBAL_MEMORY &= 0 
    return length(GLOBAL_MEMORY) 
end function 
 
-- get the value stored in the global sequence 
global function get(integer index) 
    return GLOBAL_MEMORY[index] 
end function 
 
-- set a value stored in a global sequence 
global procedure set(integer index, object value) 
    GLOBAL_MEMORY[index] = value 
end procedure 

But it doesn't answer the question why OpenEuphoria support pass by reference.

- David