On Thursday, July 12, 2001, at 04:21 , Hisaoki Nishida wrote:
> When I read developer documentations I sometimes see the term "opaque
> reference."
> What does this mean and what's the difference from a plain reference?
It means it's a way to refer to something, and you're not supposed to
know the details of what it refers to. Or how it refers (it might now be
an index into an array, a pointer, a handle, an offset, or whatever).
As opposed to a pointer to a struct, which is how the Mac toolbox used
to be.
David Dunham A Sharp <david...>
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