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- From: Alun.Champion@bridge.bst.bls.com (Alun Champion)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: newbie need help with pointers
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 21:23:18 GMT
- Organization: Computer People Inc.
- Message-ID: <ALUN.CHAMPION.96Jan10162318@g7240065.bridge.bst.bls.com>
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- In-reply-to: Mark Seaborn's message of Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:24:50 -0600
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- In article <30F41282.726E@email.mot.com> Mark Seaborn <cms024@email.mot.com> writes:
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- : Another good use for pointers that you may not of thought of is
- : the fact that you need a pointer to anything you want a function to
- : modify when the value is passed as parameter.
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- You don't *need* a pointer. You could use a reference.
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- Regards
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- -A.
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