Possibly it's misleading if you're coming from C++ -- but if that's the
case you probably already know what pointers are. It's compatible with
how I've heard the term "reference" used in every other context. The
fact that they are first class values is an important point, however.
-Ian
Quoting Wagner Riffel (2019-01-09 11:31:44)
> i think the term reference is misleading, pointers holds a memory
> address, but they are variables, have their own space in memory.
> var i int
> var p1, p2 = &i, &i
> fmt.Printf("%p, %p, %p", &i, &p1, &p2) // 0x10000000, 0x10000004, 0x10000008
>
> while in c++ references variables for example, address are shared for
> referenced and reference.
> int i;
> int &p1=i, &p2=i;
> printf("%p, %p, %p", &i, &p1, &p2); // 0x10000000, 0x10000000, 0x10000000
>
> probably "memory address to a value" fits better for pointers.
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 12:44 PM Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:46 PM 伊藤和也 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can I say that a pointer is a reference or memory address to a value?
> >
> > Sure.
> >
> > Ian
> >
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