Fortran depends heavily on pointers for its semantics: It is a call by reference language. You just don't see them explicit in the language and you have no control over whether an argument will be modified by a procedure.
-rob On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 5:13 AM Victor Giordano <vitucho3...@gmail.com> wrote: > i guess that a good question to start is there is a language that doesn't > relays on pointer. Fortran as someone says below, may be a good example how > things get done using values only. I programmed in COBOL in the universitiy > and don't recall to use pointers. There aren't necessary at all, > nevertheless they provide inderection or referrals that allow to express > things more efficiently in certain scenarios. You could write an entire > program witout using pointers,i guess, that call is in the cook chief!. > Nice topic to talk. > > > El martes, 1 de enero de 2019, 8:34:34 (UTC-3), 伊藤和也 escribió: >> >> What are the reasonable reasons to use pointers? Are pointers neseccary? >> > -- > 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. > -- 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.
