[Fixed] C++ Reference identifiers

References are a pointer internally, the language takes care of dereferencing etc. for you. In general references are safer than pointers (you can't easilly produce a null reference, or point it to an arbitrary location in memory).
Then again, you can't do some of the really neat (and totaly dangerous) things with references that you can do with pointers ;)

Use references whenever you can, and pointers when you have to. References are implemented differently depending on the compiler, but you can think of them as const pointers that are automatically dereferenced. They are an alias for a variable, and cannot ever point to another variable, like const pointers.

Thank you guys!. That was clarified. No wonder about it again.
++Rate ;

Should I delete such a short thread ? :/

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Original post by Skeleton_V@T Thank you guys!. That was clarified. No wonder about it again. ++Rate ;

Your welcome ;)

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Should I delete such a short thread ? :/

Probably not, it might be usefull to someone else, besides, I am not sure it will let you delete a thread once there are more than a few replies (I think only mods can do that).