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Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Bruce Hoult <br...@hoult.org>
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 20:44:08 +1200
Local: Sun, May 5 2002 4:44 am
Subject: Re: quest for pass-by-reference semantics in CL
In article <gat-0505020039060...@192.168.1.50>,
g...@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat) wrote: > True, but it's not nearly as clear that a cons cell is not at all like a C The word "pointer" is perhaps not found in the language specification, > struct. In fact, to explain the behavior of passing a cons cell you have > to hypothesize that you're really passing a pointer to the cons cell as > the "value", but this hypothetical pointer is nowhere to be found in the > language specification. You have to invent it. IMO that's no more > reasonable than inventing a new term to describe what's going on. but if a C programmer just mentally substitutes the word "pointer" every place it says "binding" then they'll understand it perfectly well. In some ways a C++ reference is a better analogy, but in other ways -- Bruce You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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