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Re: Pointers and Referencesby Anonymous Monk |
on Nov 23, 2020 at 03:44 UTC ( [id://11124047]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Quick conceptual tip here: "forget 'pointers!'" In high-level interpreted languages such as Perl, there are only references. The interpreter manages all of these things for you, including necessary reference-counting and memory management. "Pointers" are a much lower-level concept – part of the essential underlying implementation – which is never directly exposed to the language user.
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