Triple Ref Pointers - Computerphile

The 'magic' trick of pointers to pointers - Professor Brailsford explains how what might seem complicated will actually simplify your code. (See Extra Bits video for a code walkthrough)

The Professor's Code: http://bit.ly/Computerphile_ProfBrail...
EXTRA BITS - Triple Ref Code: EXTRA BITS: The Triple Ref Code - Com...

n.b. Message from the Prof: Many thanks to all of you who have pointed out that I got over excited at the end of this video and (on the LEGO model) did the pointer reassignment in the wrong order. The correct way ( in the model once again) was to do the short pointer first and the longer pointer second - which I think is done correctly in the downloadable C program.

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