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Wilt, Charles wrote:
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But maybe I'm over thinking it, thinking too much about what's going on behind the scenes instead of
up front. Just seems wrong to me to say char(*) isn't a pointer....
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How about bin(4) or char(10)? I think that if you want to say char(*)
is a pointer, then you have to be willing to say that every type is a
pointer.
Consider the case where the parameter really is a pointer; if you pass
it by reference, then under the covers, you pass a pointer to a pointer.
I think that's the only case where we should say that the parameter
type is a pointer. If we try to use the "pointer" terminology for other
types, it would be very difficult to talk about true pointer parameters.
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