[fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Tue Oct 13 13:34:01 CEST 2009


Jürgen Hestermann schrieb:
> 
> Yes, but you cannot avoid it, if you work with dynamic arrays. You are
> not even told that it's a pointer. That's just the problem.

The problem is that one is playing with stuff he doesn't understand.
Explict use of pointers is always dangerous and one should really know
what he does especially on object pascal dyn. arrays which are much more
than a simply pointer to the data else one wrecks anyways havoc.



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