If I recall correctly, Joe's contention was that pointers are not needed in RB and that they would (and do in other languages) cause problems when used incorrectly. It seems to me that even though Joe has left RS, the company is still toeing to that line. I believe the Ptr class that was discussed in this thread is a variation on the MemoryBlock ptr property that has existed for as long as I can remember. A quick look in the Language Reference seems to support that. As far as I know, RB's Ptr class is there only to provide support for declares, just as it always was as a MemoryBlock property. I hope Joe or somebody else who's better informed than I am will correct anything I've misstated.
> dim SomePtr as Ptr > > > On Jul 19, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Rafael Vallejo wrote: > >> And SomePtr is what kind of data MemoryBlock or any thing else? Erm... So RS finally caved in, and added the very same feature that before they said was "Evil" (to use Mr Strout's words), would totally break RB's design and would never appear in RB? Wow. -- http://elfdata.com/plugin/
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