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From: jml@bdblues.altair.fr (Jean Marie Larcheveque)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: dynamic symbol binding
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Date: 1 Oct 90 10:46:35 GMT
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To my knowledge, there is no language which allows you to
bind a symbol to an object created dynamically.
This would happen for example if C++ had a primitive alloc
with interface Type& alloc(Type). 
Then we could write

int& x = //... some initialization
//...
x = alloc int;  //... previous lvalue of x is lost,
				// perhaps deallocated

I am not suggesting that this is useful, and in fact I
don't think it is, but I am curious to know if this kind of
thing is possible in any language.

--
Jean-Marie Larcheveque  <jml@bdblues.altair.fr> or 
                        <jml@nuri.inria.fr>