Pointers

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Sat Oct 15 14:17:10 EDT 2016


Agreed, colin.  The language and the tool should be doing the work, not
me.  The compiler should be doing the work, not me.

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Ralph DiMola <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>
wrote:

> Bliss32(Dec VMS) used periods "." for pointers. Multi dots were allowed and
> gave me many a headache back in the day.
> Myvar==>The the variables value
> .Myvar==>Address of the variables value
> ..Myvar==>Address of the address to the variables value
> And so on...
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On
> Behalf
> Of Colin Holgate
> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2016 10:49 AM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: Pointers
>
> The difficulty with pointers and handles was that with one you could get
> straight at the value you wanted, and the other you had to dereference it
> first. Meaning, that you were the one who had to understand whether you
> were
> dealing with a pointer or a handle. Computers ought to take care of those
> things for you.
>
>
> > On Oct 15, 2016, at 7:38 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know why you would have a problem with that; Once you
> > understand how to use pointers, you should have no problems with
> > handles;
>
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