>>>>Right, exactly. You just have to mark the code unsafe, so you would be doing this on your own risk.
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>>>I would mark the code as "crap", I never understood the need of pointers in OOP, there should not even be mentioned :)
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>>:) They actually have their usage according to the book I referred to create quick stack based arrays...
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>If you have to circumvent the language and its best practices, then there is something wrong with your design.

That's a pretty narrow view. If you can gain a real, tangible benefit from circumventing "best practices", then chances are those "best practices" need to be revisited. That's how they evolve, and even how they arose in the first place.

As for circumventing a language, that's how a language evolves, and it's a major driver in the development of new languages.