On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:20:28PM -0600, linas wrote:
> I guess the real point that I'd wanted to make, and seems
> to have gotten lost, was that by avoiding using pointers,
> you end up designing code in a very different way, and you
> can find out that often/usually, you don't need structs
> filled with a zoo of pointers.
Umm, references are implemented as pointers. Instead of a "zoo of
pointers" you have a "zoo of references". No functional difference.
> Minimizing pointers is good: less ref counting is needed,
> fewer mallocs are needed, fewer locks are needed
> (because of local/private scope!!), and null pointer
> deref errors are less likely.
Not true at all! If you're storing references you absolutley still need
reference counting. Allocation non-trivial things on the stack is Bad
Idea in kernel land.
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