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haileys on May 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: *JS : Low-Level JavaScript

A pointer to T is definitely a different type to T itself: http://codepad.org/ztUjn7g8

rudiger on May 13, 2012 [–]

What I mean to say is, if T is a type, then a pointer to T is certainly different from T, but a "pointer to T" isn't a new type. The C type system includes the single type "pointer."

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