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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: using references vrs. pointers
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Date: 28 Jan 89 17:48:05 GMT
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Perhaps the most fundamental difference between references and
pointers is that a pointer is an object and a reference is not.
A reference is just a way of binding a name to an already existing
object.

Thus using pointers allows you to treat the pointers themselves
as objects that can be copied, passed as arguments, returned,
placed into structures, and so on.  There's no way to do that
with references.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com