Steven D'Aprano wrote:
In fairness, he's not the only one. M Harris has twice now linked to an
IBM site that describes pass-by-reference in C in terms of passing a
pointer to the argument you want as the argument. Admittedly, doing so
gives you almost the same behaviour, except that you have to dereference
the pointers yourself.
That's a pretty big difference though, and gets to the core of the
argument: it's a bit like arguing that manual cars are fitted with
exactly the same automatic transmission as auto cars, it's just that you
have to engage the clutch and shift gears yourself.
... and actually, if you feel it just right and you have just the right
synchro-mesh setup, you can slide from 3rd into 4th without every
touching the clutch peddle... and if that isn't automatic, I don't know
what is.... man those were the days... now I just press a button that
says, "Auto 4-wheel Lock", set the gps, and take a nap...
:)
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