On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:38:28PM -0600, linas wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:36:25AM -0800, [email protected] was heard to remark:
> > Umm, references are implemented as pointers. Instead of a "zoo of
> > pointers" you have a "zoo of references". No functional difference.
>
> Sigh.
>
> I think you are confusing references and pointers. By definition
> you cannot "store a reference"; however, you can "dereference"
> an object and store a pointer to it.
Sigh, That's funny - I've written C++ code which has references as members
of objects. You absolutely *can* store a reference.
References are simply a syntactic simplification to eliminate the
different pointer-dereference notation. If they make you think about a
problem differently, that's fine, but they are really just pointers in
disguise.
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