Restriction of Managed Types

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Edward Diener

In the MSDN topic for MC++ "Restriction of Managed Types", I read that GC
and value types "cannot contain pointers to other managed types ". That
can't be right. Does it really mean to say that a __gc class can not have a
pointer to an object of another __gc class ? I must be missing something in
the documentation, but OOP programming as I know it would end if a class
couldn't have a pointer to an object of another class. What have I missed
here in the explanation ?
 
Edward said:
In the MSDN topic for MC++ "Restriction of Managed Types", I read that GC
and value types "cannot contain pointers to other managed types ". That
can't be right. Does it really mean to say that a __gc class can not have a
pointer to an object of another __gc class ? I must be missing something in
the documentation, but OOP programming as I know it would end if a class
couldn't have a pointer to an object of another class. What have I missed
here in the explanation ?
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You're talking about this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...cmex/html/vclrfrestrictionsofmanagedtypes.asp

I'm not sure what the article meant to say, but your instincts are correct.
What it says is wrong.
 
Yes, I agree. I'll get the topic fixed.

Thanks for the catch.

Ronald Laeremans
Visual C++ team
 
Ronald said:
Yes, I agree. I'll get the topic fixed.

Thanks for the catch.
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No problem. As a C++ programmer, I am trying to learn MC++ programming and
it surely couldn't be correct.
 
BTW, second guessing what we did mean, the most likely explanation is that
we meant to say "interior pointer". Which would have made the statement
correct.

Ronald
 
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