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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: C's sins of commission
Message-ID: <24573:Nov906:24:0790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 06:24:07 GMT
References: <1990Nov2.172508.6393@maths.nott.ac.uk> <PCG.90Nov3185931@athene.cs.aber.ac.uk> <1990Nov8.174042.24789@maths.nott.ac.uk>
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In article <1990Nov8.174042.24789@maths.nott.ac.uk> anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker) writes:
> >What you want to do is to represent entities, not be concerned about how
> >the relevant encoding is done.
> 	Just so, which is exactly why I am happy for my entities to
> include pointers to other entities, and to let the compiler worry
> about how it is actually done in machine code.

Exactly! I really do think about data structures as boxes containing
other boxes, some of which contain arrows to boxes. When I draw them,
that's how I draw them, not as some abstract ``list'' or ``tree'' or
``recursive data structure'' (not that I know how you draw those).

---Dan