Re: pointer question

[Paul van Delst <paul.vandelst(at)noaa.gov>]

"Pavel A. Romashkin" wrote:
> 
> John-David Smith wrote:
> 
> > While this isn't exactly useful programatically, it may get you out of a pinch.
> 
> I could see even how you could get the output from Help into a string,
> then use Cast to get tthe heap variables, but the effort involved seems
> much larger than avoiding losing the pointers tostart with. Besides,
> they say not to use Help to gather any info used in a program, as they
> can change it at any time.

And it wouldn't inspire confidence in code when the method used to recover lost pointer
references is via a procedure called "help". :o)

paulv

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