Michael Torrie wrote:
Pointers are for a different conceptual model, a different (virtual) machine architecture.
And even in many lower-level languages that do have pointers, they're not much like the wild, undisciplined version that you get in C and C++. In Pascal, for example (and derivatives like Modula) the only legitimate use for a pointer is to reference a heap-allocated memory block -- they can't point into the middle of arbitrary data structures. I think Pascal does a pretty good job of abstracting the essential features of the underlying hardware, and it does it without needing anything like a C-style pointer. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
