in fact... array indices and fortran's call by address rules make it a pointer language in the sense you mean.
when i was a mere boy i had to decode brian kernighan's magical packing of triangular arrays using such a scheme. ;-) On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 5:23 PM Drew Derbyshire <a...@kew.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, January 1, 2019 at 9:13:44 AM UTC-8, Jan Mercl wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 12:34 PM 伊藤和也 <kazya.i...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > What are the reasonable reasons to use pointers? Are pointers necessary? >> >> Yes, they're necessary in non-trivial programs. Without pointers any >> program can use only (named) variables declared in the program. Pointers >> allow creating (anonymous) variables at run time accessed via the pointer. >> Many useful data structures rely on variables dynamically allocated at run >> time. >> > > You've never met a FORTRAN 66 programmer. :-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *Michael T. jonesmichael.jo...@gmail.com <michael.jo...@gmail.com>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
