Re: What's the position of pointers

CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Richard wrote:
CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

... snip ...

If C pointers are bothering you, you might consider first learning
Pascal and handling pointers therein. Then returning to C would
mean abandoning the safety and adding new capabilities.

That is atrocious advice. And would certainly lead to expectations
not met by C.

Except that it duplicates my experience of long long ago, and I
have no problems with C pointers.

Of long long ago.

I have experience of new C programmers and have never, ever had a
problem explaining them pointers and de referencing pointers. I tend to
use a debugger a block of memory. Easy.

They do not need to learn a dead language like Pascal to understand
pointers.

.

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