> 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 thin
I believe the two terms, reference and pointer, are equivalent. By the
way, In Java, they call it reference also, I think.
--Ahmed
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Patrick Hall wrote:
> Hi pholks,
>
> It's taken me a while to wrap my head around
> references, since I thoug
> 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 thin
