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| From | Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: Why const int& ? |
| Date | 2011-11-09 09:49 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <j9dibi$kpq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:00:15 +0000, Juha Nieminen wrote: > Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> wrote: >> Unfortunately, AFAIK, Java developers decided that "pointer" >> was a dirty word and used the word "reference" instead. Java references >> really ought to have been called pointers. In that respect, Java follows an older precedent than C or C++. > Actually references in Java are much more abstract than pointers in > C++, > even though that might not be immediately apparent. Likewise. ALGOL-W (from about 1963) comes to mind here. - Brian
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Re: Why const int& ? Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> - 2011-11-09 09:49 +0000
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