On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Yep. I should have clarified that I wasn't talking about Pascal; I'm not >> fluent in the language (last time I did anything at all with Pascal was >> probably about ten years ago, and not much then). In C, it strictly does >> what I said: & takes the address of something, * dereferences an >> address. There's no way to "pass a variable" - you have to pass the >> address, and that has consequences if, for instance, you *return* an >> address and the variable ceases to exist. (Does Pascal have an >> equivalent of that?) > > Yes, Pascal has pointers as a first-class data type. Syntax is similar to > C, ^x is a pointer to x, p^ dereferences the pointer p. >
Right, I remember those now. Yes. (See how rusty I am on it? Heh.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
