Um
Really?
Which of these things are you specifically trying to prevent happening
- Curiousity
- Creativity
- Asking questions
- Some combination of the above
I mean, I appreciate that you think that people should *know* whatever it
is you think you know, but that's a really *really* poor response
On Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 4:08:02 PM UTC+11 Kurtis Rader wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 8:38 PM Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A linked list, for example, consists of pointers to pointers to
>> pointers...
>>
>> Why should any limit exist to the length of the list except resources
>> available?
>>
>
> Yes, but the O.P. was asking about a silly example. Specifically, when
> defining a function that receives pointers how many levels of indirection
> are allowed in the declaration. In practice 99.9% of the time a single
> level of indirection is specified and 0.09% of the time two levels are
> specified. Etcetera. For example, if
>
> func wtf(i ********int) {
> }
>
> is supported, which has eight levels of indirection, why isn't 16? 32? 64?
> Etcetera levels of indirection supported when defining a function. It's a
> silly question that shows the O.P. doesn't understand how compilers work.
> Let alone how people use languages like Go in real life.
>
>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 03:59 shan...@gmail.com <shan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This morning someone asked about dereferincing a pointer to a pointer to
>>> a pointer
>>>
>>> At first nobody had ever thought about, let alone knew the answer, but
>>> some example code was shown, and sure enough ***val is possible
>>> ```
>>> package main
>>>
>>> import "fmt"
>>>
>>> func main() {
>>> a := 0
>>> b := &a
>>> c := &b
>>> UltimatePointOne(&c)
>>> fmt.Println(a)
>>> }
>>>
>>> func UltimatePointOne(n ***int) {
>>> ***n = 1
>>> }
>>> ```
>>>
>>>
>>> On a lark a go playground example was tried to find what the maximum *
>>> is in Go
>>>
>>> https://go.dev/play/p/YhibY3p7TSD
>>>
>>> There's 28 there, but it's not the limit
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what the upper bound on this could be?
>>>
>>> 256 * ?
>>>
>>> 32k * ?
>>>
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