Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!bernina!neptune!c!mneerach From: mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Linked Lists: Handles or Pointers? Message-ID: <23306@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Date: 28 Jan 91 19:40:34 GMT References: <1991Jan23.002212.7648@umiami.ir.miami.edu> <.664719435@rw8.urc.tue.nl> <1991Jan24.145729.12853@nada.kth.se> Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch Reply-To: mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch Organization: Departement Informatik, ETH, Zurich Lines: 25 In article , rcbaab@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer) writes: > I'd rather use something like: > var BigBlah:HandleType; > > procedure test; > var blah: HandleType; > > begin > blah:=BigBlah; But then you can leave out the copy altogether. It won't change anything. > "now I can do whatever I like with whatever toolbox call I would like > to use..." > BigBlah:=blah; > end; Matthias ----- Matthias Neeracher mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch "These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness." -- William Gibson, _Johnny Mnemonic_