Call by binding [was Re: [Tutor] beginning to code]

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Rhodri James <rhodri at kynesim.co.uk>:
> On 25/09/17 15:26, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> That's not what I said. I said all expressions *evaluate to* pointers.
>
> This may well be true in particular implementations, but it is an
> implementation detail so Chris' point still stands.  Another
> implementation could evaluate expressions to indices (as BCPL used to
> treat its globals), pieces of string or cheese, who knows?

Those are all pointers.

A pointer is something that points to a data object.


Marko