On 13/08/10 10:18, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, August 12, 2010 17:38:28 Graham St Jack wrote:
For me, the key problem is that a class object reference has the same
const/immutable/shared attribute as the object on the heap that it
refers to. This is sometimes what you need, but more often you want a
non-shared, mutable reference to a const/immutable/shared object.
You can achieve this with pointers for arrays, structs and primitive
types, but not with classes because a class pointer is just a pointer to
a reference.
Hence the hack that is Rebindable!().
Oh, and you _can_ achieve pointers to classes, but what you normally use are
references, which do have the problem of not being able to be split between the
reference and referent types.
- Jonathan M Davis
So how do you get a pointer to an object? Taking the address of an
object reference gives you a pointer to the reference, not the object,
which is fair enough. As far as I know there isn't a way to get a
pointer to the object itself, and even if you could, how do you use such
a thing?
--
Graham St Jack
