OpenEuphoria

Re: pointers

• Posted by Marcel Kollenaar <M.Kollenaar at SLO.NL> Apr 08, 1997
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Hilley wrote: (not complete)

>
> I can think of 2 cases where pointer would be helpful
> for me.
>
> 1: Conversion of languages such as C & Pascal

Not necessary. I've translated some programs form Pascal and C into
Euphoria. You only have to translate the pointer structure to a
sequence and it works. Euphoria can do (almost) everything what
Pascal and C can if you take the time to do it the Euphoria way....

> 2: Accessing of 1D sequences such as {1, 2, 3, 4, 255, 0}.
>     I could use it to copy 1D sequences to video memory.
>     I could use it to create masks using the sequence
>     operators such as and_bits.  This would keep me from
>     having to peek() and poke() to do operations on
>     sequences in memory.
> SNIP....

Yes, but still no need for pointers. It will confuse the whole
language.

Marcel