From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: C++ briar patch (Was: Object IDs are bad)
Date:
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In article <············@masala.cc.uh.edu>,
········@bayou.uh.edu <········@Bayou.UH.EDU> wrote:
> I think the question goes further to "do we even need to obtain and
> dereference them?". I'm using Scheme, and before that Haskell -- 2
> languages without pointers, and I've yet to run into a situation
> where I even remotely missed them much less thought about them.
Last I checked, Scheme was a very close Lisp variant. Now, Lisp has pointers
and pointer operations (CAR, CDR, RPLACA, RPLACD, ...). Doesn't Scheme?
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