pointers

[Jp Calderone]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:48:36PM -0500, John Roth wrote:
> 
> "km" <km at mrna.tn.nic.in> wrote in message
> news:mailman.142.1072628533.684.python-list at python.org...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > may i know  if  there is any plans of  introducing the concept of pointers
> into python language as in C ?  (atleast in future versions ?)
> 
> 
> Outside of the sheer, unadulterated wrongheadedness of
> the idea, it occured to me to wonder. How would one do
> this, and what benefit would it serve? Today, one can bind
> anything to almost anything, so I'm having some inability
> to see what one would do with pointers.
> 

  Easily.  A pointer is basically just an integer, with a couple minor extra
operations defined upon it..  An extension type that implemented the proper
behavior would probably only be a couple hours work to implement.

  As for what benefit it would serve... I can't see any.

  Jp