On Saturday, 29 April 2017 at 07:26:45 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 28.04.2017 23:52, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:50:49PM +0000, Atila Neves via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 19:41:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 19:41:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
«Back in the old DOS days, there were multiple pointer types
(near
and far). Programmers put up with that because it was the
only way,
but they HATED HATED HATED it.»
It's true, we did. It was awful.
[...]
I remember working with that. It was a royal PITA.
T
I don't doubt that, but the implicit generalization is
"multiple pointer types are necessarily always a royal PITA".
The "implicit generalization" is your interpretation, though.
