Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!enuxha!nelan From: nelan@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (George Nelan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Pointers are abstractions Message-ID: <1578@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> Date: 13 Oct 90 15:57:16 GMT References: <26362@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Lines: 19 In article <26362@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>, gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes: | ... | abstraction. I note the following (incorrect) comments: | ... | In article <1576@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> nelan@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (George Nelan) writes: | ]Uh, ahem. Mathematics & Pointers. Never shall the twain meet. Why? | ]Mathematics is about relations (implies functions). Pointers are about | ]memory... | Perhaps this is an incorrect comment. However, if you would have included my disclaimer as part of the attribution then it cannot be taken as incorrect - or correct, for that matter - because the disclaimer stated that the comment was a GROSS OVER-GENERALIZATION. Ok? -- George Nelan, ERC 252, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, 85287 INET: nelan@enuxha.eas.asu.edu UUCP: ...{allegra,{ames,husc6,rutgers}!ncar}!noao!asuvax!nelan QOTD: ever where ever = "what" : ever