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Pointers explained: (europe.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I had to implement drag and drop in a Windows application recently. Since you don't know the content type nor the size of the content, pointers has to be used, which makes sense. For the most part when working within the bounds of my own application, I haven't found a good use case for pointers. That could of course be because I am not used to thinking in that way.