PointerTypeDescription-class: Description of pointer data type in type library

PointerTypeDescription-classR Documentation

Description of pointer data type in type library

Description

This is an extension of TypeDescription-class for representing pointers or references to basic data types. This provides a slot for representing the number of indirect levels to the actual data type, or in other words, the depth of the pointer.

Objects from the Class

Created in C code.

Slots

depth:

Object of class "integer" the number of indirect levels to the data structure. For example, a pointer to a data type (e.g. type * in C) has depth 1.

name:

the name of the base type to which this is a pointer.

Extends

Class "TypeDescription", directly.

Methods

No methods defined with class "PointerTypeDescription" in the signature.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>

References

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library http://www.omegahat.org/RWinTypeLibs

See Also

TypeDescription-class


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