Re: [MacPerl] why address called reference?

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Xah Lee <xah@best.com> writes:
>Why does Perl call memory address references? e.g. "$xx is a reference to an a
rray", instead of "$xx is an address of an array".

Because you shouldn't be encouraged to think of it as a memory address :-)

There are also symbolic references, BTW, although I'd advise against using them
normally.

Matthias

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