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[Kris]

"Janice Caron" <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.39.1194815875.2338.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On 11/11/07, Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> Because raw pointers don't have a .value property
>
> It's your language, so you could give raw pointers whatever properties
> you wanted. They already have .sizeof and .init and .mangleof. If you
> wanted to, you could give pointers a .value property. Just saying
> "they don't have that property" is a silly argument for someone with
> your godlike powers over the language.

There's such a thing as a balanced and practical perspective. Just because 
Walter *could* add all kinds of things to the language doesn't mean that he 
*should* do so. Thus, I'd say perhaps you're the one with the silly argument 
:p