On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:32:38AM -0700, Bob La Quey wrote:

So? Why is handing pointers around a _bad_ way to abstract?

Mostly because the language does nothing to help me when I do something
wrong.  Deferencing an integer as if it were a pointer should generate an
error, not corrupt memory.

Ultimately, we're going to hand around pointers, but it's much better if
things are tagged so we can tell if there are errors and such.

David

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