Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]
Steve D'Aprano
steve+python at pearwood.info
Fri Oct 13 01:16:27 EDT 2017
On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 03:37 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> If the compiler can tell where p is initially pointing, it could
> put the pointer in read-only memory.
If it's read-only, how can the compiler write to it?
(I come from the days when ROM was actual ROM, burned in at the factory.)
--
Steve
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.
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