Call by binding [was Re: [Tutor] beginning to code]
Rhodri James
rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Tue Sep 26 06:51:26 EDT 2017
On 25/09/17 20:40, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Rhodri James <rhodri at kynesim.co.uk>:
>> On 25/09/17 15:26, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> That's not what I said. I said all expressions *evaluate to* pointers.
>>
>> This may well be true in particular implementations, but it is an
>> implementation detail so Chris' point still stands. Another
>> implementation could evaluate expressions to indices (as BCPL used to
>> treat its globals), pieces of string or cheese, who knows?
>
> Those are all pointers.
>
> A pointer is something that points to a data object.
In that case you are using "pointer" in such an informal sense that
making deductions from it is unlikely to be successful.
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