Re: function as a pointer.

"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:4580BACF.75716D87@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Chris Burrows wrote:
>>
>> No, this is not ok in ISO Standard Pascal.
>
> On the contrary, this is the ONLY way to return a value in ISO
> standard Pascal.
>

I'm sorry - I wasn't specific enough. That wasn't what I was referring to.

It was the concept of eventually using the result of that function as a 
pointer variable that I thought was a problem. I mistakenly snipped the 
relevant bit:

ohyeah:=myfun();

However, on further investigation, I was mistaken, as that is OK. There is

only a problem is if you tried to dereference a pointer function:

e.g. node := myfun()^.next

You have to do this in two steps:

temp := myfun();
node := temp^.next;

However, as you initmated in your previous reply, the statement in the 
original code:

  myfun:=nil;

is suspect.

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Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp