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Re: Question about style [message #12390]

Thu, 30 July 1998 00:00

David Foster
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Registered: January 1996

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Imanol Echave wrote:
>
> Hi people:
>
> In one of my programs I need to return some values, but every value is a matrix
> of diferent size and I can't make an array of matrix. The solution I've founded
> is to use an array of pointers pointing to the matrix. Do you think this is an
> ellegant way to do it? Has anyone a better idea?

This sounds perfectly reasonable to me; this is what pointers were
made for. I might suggest creating a structure containing the
pointers within your program, and then return that structure.
It's often easier to deal with data when it's encapsulated like
this. I often include a .status and .status_msg field so I can
return error codes and error messages within my structure.

Dave

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