RE: pointers

["Andrea Westerinen" <andreaw@cisco.com>]

I didn't see a reply to this, and wasn't in the terminal room.  But ...
"Pointers" do make sense in an "info model" since there is no implementation
to point to/from/with/...  It is very reasonable and logical to "refer" to a
class or an instance.  If this is a "pointer," then I agree but would highly
recommend the word, "reference," to avoid confusion.

Andrea

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nim@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-nim@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of
Tom Scott
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 8:11 AM
To: case@snmp.com
Cc: nim@psg.com
Subject: pointers


Jeffrey,

For the sake of those who didn't hear our conversation in the terminal room
this morning, please post to the list your clarifications on the use of
pointers as basic data types.

Specifically, you stated in the NIM BoF yesterday that there should be three
data types in the model: numbers, characters/strings and pointers. C
programmers may read more into that statement than is justified.

--Tom
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