On Jul 20, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Dennis Birch wrote:

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.

Yes, it is that very same datatype. The new feature is that you can peek or poke the contents of the pointer directly, without first wrapping it in a MemoryBlock.

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.

Yes, that's the basic idea.

Mars Saxman
REAL Software
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