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Rex
>> After thinking about it some more, if I were
>>designing a language, I think I might forbid assigning a
>>pointer except with a predefined procedure.
>>For example:
>>
>>VAR a, b: POINTER TO ARRAY OF INTEGER;
>>...
>>b := a; (* forbidden *)
>>ASSIGN (b, a); (* allowed *)
Personally I am very glad this idea was NOT adopted.
It would make manipulating linked lists, not to mention
more complex data structures, far less convienient.
Robert
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