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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 03:59:08 +1000
Subject: Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer"
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> wrote:
> Actually, boxes with integers in them isn't the appropriate analogy.
> Consider the naming of cats.  My cat is known to me as Paddy.  My next door
> neighbor sometimes feeds her and is known to her as Stripes.  The cat also
> is known as kitty to my youngest daughter.  The cat has no idea what its
> name is, it just is and eats.

Thanks for that. As someone who shares a house with a cat (not my
own), I find this apt and amusing. :)

ChrisA