Memory manipulation using REBOL

[taifbadr]

Hello all...
Is there a method to treat with memory location address using REBOL as efficient as the concept of pointers in C language?

[Gabriele]

Well, there is, but why would you ever want to do that?

[taifbadr]

Thanx Gabriel !!!
When i first time know about REBOL in feb 2006 , i loved this language very much and i looked to it as a programmer paradise and it will be an end of lots of suffer i face in visual and database programming using C/C++
My main aim in using memory locations is programming communication sessions between computer and external machines or devices linked to computer via serial ports,parallell ports,USB ...etc
also advanced  programmers consider it a flexible feature that THEY CAN ACCESS THE MEMORY LOCATIONS directly

[Gabriele]

The OS doesn't let you do that, unless you're writing a device driver, and you can't do that in REBOL.

Anyway, one example is:

Code:

>> s: make struct! [str [string!]] [""]
>> s/str
== ""
>> third s
== #{E0073901} ; the address of the string
>> change third s #{00100000} ; set to any address you like
== #{}
>> s/str
; at this point, of course, REBOL crashes, as would any C program that does something like this ;)

I hope noone ever starts doing things like this.