Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Darren New wrote:
Also lacking pointers: FORTRAN, COBOL, APL. :-) Seeing a pattern here?
Actually, FORTRAN kinda does have pointers.
You can dereference a COMMON block by redeclaring things to be in a
different order or type.
That's more an alias than a pointer. :-) But yah, now we're getting into
rather strange semantic games about what *is* a pointer. Everything in
FORTRAN 4 (at least) was a value, not a pointer. Even if you could have
multiple names with multiple types referring to the same value, none of
those values were anything like addresses. (IIRC)
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It's not feature creep if you put it
at the end and adjust the release date.
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