Pointers or copies?

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

Orgoton wrote:
> I haven't finished it yet. Well, each frame, the main engine will cycle through
> all the pointers on the queue with something like
> 
> for (i=0; i<queue.size; i++) queue.next().draw();
> 
> Or, to save up the callings
> 
> queue.drawall()
> 
> where all pointers would be called.
> 
> I'm used to C++, sorry for the question about pointers and copies. That means I
> can just make something like
> 
> objct objts[];
> 
> and use it just like a pointer...
> 
> void add (in objct target)
> { objts[objts.lenght-1]=target; }
> 
> (on objct)
> this
> {queue.add(this);}
> 
> and it'l work just fine without creating copies of the objects? (and spare me of
> memory problems along the way :P)

That's right.  You could also use array concatenation (objts ~= target;) if you aren't 
wanting to enforce a particular size.  And since you plan to use this in a loop, it might 
be worth taking a look at foreach.

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls