note 28438 deleted from language.variables by nlopess

Note Submitter: gabriel at bumpt dot net ---- I know this is not a C++ newsgroup, but I just wanted to get things right, after the comment of "someone at somewhere dot com". The C-like piece of code provided by stlawson DOES use a pointer, and NOT a C++ reference. "someone at somewhere dot com" got confused because type declaration was obviously omitted for clarity reasons. A reference in C++ is almost a type qualifier: a variable is of type "reference to objects of class MyClass". Therefore, one cannot assign &myObj to a variable declared as a "reference to objects of class MyClass". &myObj really identifies a pointer to myObj, and dereference (using * or ->) is requiered.