Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Yes, Pascal has pointers as a first-class data type. Syntax is similar to C, ^x is a pointer to x, p^ dereferences the pointer p.
Actually, the prefix ^ is only used for declaring pointer *types*. Standard Pascal has no way of getting a pointer to an arbitrary variable; the only way to get a pointer is new(p) (which is the equivalent of p = malloc(sizeof(*p))). -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
