Re: which language allows you to change an argument's value?

2007-10-01 Thread Sascha Bohnenkamp
> Neither C or Java has call by reference. > C pointers and Java references may work similarly in most cases > but it is still call by value. so what? the references in c++ are passed by value too, its just a nice interface to pointers. At the end those parameters are pushed on the stack .. thats i

Re: The Modernization of Emacs

2007-06-21 Thread Sascha Bohnenkamp
> Windows text editors are not normal: most are devoid of all but the most > primitive functions and are further hampered by having an interface that > required frequent time wasting hand transfers from keyboard to mouse > because, if they provide keyboard equivalents at all, these are > remarkably

Re: The Modernization of Emacs

2007-06-21 Thread Sascha Bohnenkamp
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