I... don't think that's the purpose of pointers. On 7/20/07, Mike Caron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/20/07, James Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, Mike. I noticed that DeSerHeroDef and SerHeroDef expect a herodef > ptr rather than just taking a herodef as an argument. Why is this? If > the herodef object was passed by value (copied) I would understand the > need for using pointers, but I was under the impression that objects are > passed by reference by default. Was I mistaken about that? Also, what > advantage would passing a pointer have over explicitly passing byref? Well, I never liked Byref to begin with. It's easy to forget that a variable is not yours exclusively, and then you get bugs. Further, if you're not expecting a function to modify a variable, and they do, then you can't trust the value of the variable. By making it a pointer, you emphasize that it's not your variable, and, you remind the caller that it needs direct access to the variable. -- Mike Caron Tale of the Cave http://taleofthecave.com _______________________________________________ ohrrpgce mailing list ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
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