Re: gets() and "string" variable type
Jason Gade wrote:
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> I think I understand your "*4" question a little bit better...
>
> Euphoria assumes that longs and pointers are the same size, namely 4 bytes.
> The compiler takes care of the "*4". There is no byte addressing done, it's
> all done by 4.
>
> Does that help any? The pointer arithmetic takes the type's sizeof into
> account
> automagically.
>
I would like to say that this demonstrates the excellence of Euphoria
sequences - and the language as a whole. No more do I have to wonder
if my pointer should step by 1, 2 or 4. No more type-casting ulongs to
HWND, no more adding code to check pointers are pointing to valid data,
no more shuffling things about to add a string where there was only a
word before...
And maybe the idea of byte-sized items in string sequences isn't quite
so good; certainly it is so easy to interface with DLLs that I can
easily write myself a DLL as a text buffer or whatever...
So thanks, Rob, your language has made programming umpteen times easier!
Andy
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