My understanding has been that handles became necessary when OS systems began to do memory housekeeping. A pointer might be viable before the housekeeping, and afterwards not. Handles allowed the system to re-reference the new location of the data in memory.
> On Oct 15, 2016, at 07:48 , Colin Holgate <colinholg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The difficulty with pointers and handles was that with one you could get > straight at the value you wanted, and the other you had to dereference it > first. Meaning, that you were the one who had to understand whether you were > dealing with a pointer or a handle. Computers ought to take care of those > things for you. > > >> On Oct 15, 2016, at 7:38 AM, Mike Kerner <mikeker...@roadrunner.com> wrote: >> >> I don't know why you would have a problem with that; >> Once you understand how to use pointers, you should have no problems with >> handles; > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
