On 4/23/2010 3:33 AM, spir ☣ wrote:
Say I want to implement a kind of linked list which node data may be anything. Thus I cannot store data on place (in nodes), indeed; so it should be referenced. But pointers themselves are supposed to be typed. So, how can I do that?
The key to solving this problem is to answer the question "How will I know what type of data that pointer points to?" Once you determine what is being pointed to you can cast Pointer^ to that type and all should work.
I would use Pointer as an untyped pointer to anything and ignore the warning. Perhaps you can turn off that warning for this code segment since you are doing this intentionally.
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