Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!chl From: chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: C's sins of commission Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 90 12:29:55 GMT References: <387@shum.huji.ac.il> <65664@lanl.gov> <393@shum.huji.ac.il> <2958@igloo.scum.com> Organization: Dept. Of Comp Sci, Univ. of Manchester, UK. Lines: 10 In <2958@igloo.scum.com> nevin@igloo.scum.com (Nevin Liber) writes: >A related question: why _don't_ languages such as LISP and Icon (and >probably Smalltalk; I haven't used it enough to be able to comment on >it) have pointers on the programming level? Smalltalk DOES have pointers on the programming level. Its just that everything you declare (apart from a few specials like integers) is a pointer whether you like it or not, so you do not notice the fact until some unintended aliasing occurs. Eiffel is (more or less) the same.