Comments on: Processing rocks! http://www.kwartzlab.ca/2010/02/processing-rocks/ Home of Kwartzlab Makerspace in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario Thu, 16 May 2013 04:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jlamothe http://www.kwartzlab.ca/2010/02/processing-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-187 jlamothe Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-187 I’m a little confused about the syntax of your code here. Perhaps you can explain it to me.

You’ve got: `planets[i] = new Planet();` indicating that `planets[i]` is a pointer to an object of class `Planet`.
On the following line, you’ve got: `planets[i].mass = 1`. Why does this compile? Shouldn’t it be `planets[i]->mass = 1`?

]]> By: Darcy Casselman http://www.kwartzlab.ca/2010/02/processing-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Darcy Casselman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-188 Processing is its own language, that happens to look a lot like C++. Kinda like the arduino. Processing is not C++.

]]> By: amackie http://www.kwartzlab.ca/2010/02/processing-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-247 amackie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-247 Yup, dcassel above is right. It’s very close to Java in that members are all assumed to be pointers, but are accessed with “.” instead of “->”. It also deals with and disposes of allocated memory like Java.

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