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Re: pointer question [message #24312 is a reply to message #24307]

Thu, 22 March 2001 10:00

Paul van Delst
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"Pavel A. Romashkin" wrote:
>
> John-David Smith wrote:
>
>> While this isn't exactly useful programatically, it may get you out of a pinch.
>
> I could see even how you could get the output from Help into a string,
> then use Cast to get tthe heap variables, but the effort involved seems
> much larger than avoiding losing the pointers tostart with. Besides,
> they say not to use Help to gather any info used in a program, as they
> can change it at any time.

And it wouldn't inspire confidence in code when the method used to recover lost pointer
references is via a procedure called "help". :o)

paulv

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		Re: pointer question By: Martin Schultz on Mon, 26 March 2001 01:05
		Re: pointer question By: Mark Hadfield on Sun, 25 March 2001 14:16
		Re: pointer question By: Mark Hadfield on Sun, 25 March 2001 14:07
		Re: pointer question By: R.Bauer on Sun, 25 March 2001 09:24
		Re: pointer question By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 22 March 2001 20:15
		Re: pointer question By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 22 March 2001 10:00
		Re: pointer question By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 22 March 2001 09:21
		Re: pointer question By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 22 March 2001 08:56
		Re: pointer question By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 22 March 2001 08:24
		Re: pointer question By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 22 March 2001 06:52
		Re: pointer question By: Jaco van Gorkom on Thu, 22 March 2001 06:01
		Re: pointer question By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 21 March 2001 19:47
		Re: pointer question By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 26 March 2001 04:56
		Re: pointer question By: egraves on Mon, 26 March 2001 17:06

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