Florian Klaempfl wrote on Tue, 13 Oct 2009:
When messing with pointers you've to know what to write because pointers allow unlimited access to internal data structures. Sorry, but I can't help you if you guess wrong while playing with dangerous stuff (and the original poster did so: using move is a dangerous operation) instead of reading the manual.
I think that "all pointers can be indexed as arrays" can easily cause accidentantal errors though. I can't find it anymore, but I remember Pierre once fixed a bug in the compiler sources itself where someone accidentally used move(pstring_var[1],...) instead of move(pstring_var^[1],..). That at least was not a case of not understanding how pointers work, but a simple case of a typo which couldn't be caught anymore by the compiler due to this extension.
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