Pointers

[Bob Sneidar]

My understanding has been that handles became necessary when OS systems began to do memory housekeeping. A pointer might be viable before the housekeeping, and afterwards not. Handles allowed the system to re-reference the new location of the data in memory. 


> On Oct 15, 2016, at 07:48 , Colin Holgate <colinholgate at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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