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timmytheturtle

Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:46 pm


What is this symbol

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Does anyone now what this symbol is used for : ->


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wtd

Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:11 pm


Re: What is this symbol

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Does anyone now what this symbol is used for : ->

In many programming languages it's the "indirect access" operator.  You use it when you have a pointer to a record (or "struct") type and wish to access its members.

In turing it's often used with classes.

class A
    export say

    procedure say
        put "hello"
    end say
end A

var c : pointer to A

new A, c

c -> say


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timmytheturtle

Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:28 pm



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thanx wtd


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Andy

Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:31 pm



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its also used in pseudocode