I believe the two terms, reference and pointer, are equivalent. By the way, In Java, they call it reference also, I think. --Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.photo.net/users/ahmed
Patrick Hall wrote: > Hi pholks, > > It's taken me a while to wrap my head around > references, since I thought they were always > Perl-specific. (At least, the term 'reference' doesn't > show up in K&R!) > > Anyway, it finally occurred to me that the term > 'reference' might just be Perlish for what other > languages (C, I'm thinking) call a 'pointer'... Am I > totally out of wack? > > Is the distinction in the docs somewhere that I could > read about a bit? > > -Patrick > ..... > fieldmethods.net: All the news that's fit to parse: > Human Language Technology -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
