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HOLY SHIT!! IS THAT A MOTHERF*CKING C++ REFERENCE???

int& a = b;

  • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    I’ve used C but never C++. What does it mean for a variable’s type to be int&? From when I’ve used it, & would be used to create a pointer to a variable, but the type of that pointer would be int*.

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    never mind, I looked it up. It’s a “reference” instead of a pointer. Similar, but unlike a pointer it doesn’t create a distinct variable in memory of its own.