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How do you tell if a pointer doesn't point to anything...

....Without using NULL? There must be a way; people keep talking about
storing pointers to objects in different locations in the program.

Thanks.

Nov 26 '06
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On Nov 27, 3:16 pm, David Harmon <sou...@netcom. comwrote:
On 27 Nov 2006 09:54:51 -0800 in comp.lang.c++, "Narf the Mouse"
<largemo...@gma il.comwrote,
As for what I'm trying to do, I'm currently on the third re-write of my
roguelike and the code does not resemble spaghetti code. I asked thisSpaghetti code is one thing, but whenever you start throwing pointers
around you also have to beware of creating spaghetti data structures.
That's certainly something I want to avoid, as well, although I do have
a bit of that, mostly in passing the map to the CharacterClass, which I
don't see any way to avoid.

Nov 27 '06 #21

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