Carets

[cfarley1999]

Please settle a bet for me.

Person A claims that ^ in standard C++ is used to indicate a handle.
Person B claims that standard C++ does not have handles, and that ^ is
only bitwise XOR.

Who is correct?

Thanks.

[MiB]

On 17 Jul., 23:26, [e-mail] wrote:

Please settle a bet for me.

Person A claims that ^ in standard C++ is used to indicate a handle.
Person B claims that standard C++ does not have handles, and that ^ is
only bitwise XOR.

Who is correct?

Thanks.

B, the bitwise XOR is correct. Person A mixes up C++ with Pascal,
where ^ is used for pointers.

Michael.

[Mirco Wahab]

cf*********@hotmail.com wrote:

Person A claims that ^ in standard C++ is used to indicate a handle.

It's a handle (a masked pointer) in ISO C++/CLI
(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CLI )

Person B claims that standard C++ does not have handles, and that ^ is
only bitwise XOR.

It's a bitwise XOR in all C-like languages (afaik).
Handles^ aren't available in Standard C++.

Regards

M.

[Default User]

MiB wrote:

On 17 Jul., 23:26, [e-mail] wrote:

Please settle a bet for me.

Person A claims that ^ in standard C++ is used to indicate a handle.
Person B claims that standard C++ does not have handles, and that ^
is only bitwise XOR.

Who is correct?

Thanks.

B, the bitwise XOR is correct. Person A mixes up C++ with Pascal,
where ^ is used for pointers.

No, A is talking about that C++/CLI thing that MS dreamed up.


Brian

[terminator]

On Jul 18, 1:53*am, "Default User" <[e-mail]:

MiB wrote:

On 17 Jul., 23:26, [e-mail] wrote:

Please settle a bet for me.

Person A claims that ^ in standard C++ is used to indicate a handle.
Person B claims that standard C++ does not have handles, and that ^
is only bitwise XOR.

Who is correct?

Thanks.

B, the bitwise XOR is correct. Person A mixes up C++ with Pascal,
where ^ is used for pointers.

No, A is talking about that C++/CLI thing that MS dreamed up.

Brian

yes one of those none standard platform specific extensions.

regards,
FM.