OpenEuphoria

RE: Request for Eu 2.4

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Feb 05, 2003
• 393 views

Kat wrote:
> On 4 Feb 2003, at 21:30, xerox_irs at lvcm.com wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Another thing that would be good is if you could assign a variable a 
> > part
> > of
> > another so
> > atom a
> > sequence b
> > 
> > b={1,2,3,4}
> > a=assign(b,2)
> > a=5
> > now b={1,5,3,4}
> > b[2]=7
> > now a=7
> 
> This is what we used pointers for in the bad ole days. Pointing into 
> records, 
> pointers for multiple typecasting, pointers for indexing.
> 
> Kat

And something I'm sure will never be implemented in official Euphoria.  
That's more confusing than passing parameters by reference (IMHO)...

-- Brian