Questions tagged [references]
For questions about references, a superset of pointers, which refer to the location of an existing value rather than storing a value independently.
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Analysis of methods to ensure memory safety
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Ensuring memory safety is a core facet of modern programming language design. Memory safety can be guaranteed in many different ways.
For the purposes of this question, I am defining memory ...
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References in a language where everything is a reference?
I'm a big fan of Algol 68's treatment of variables. "Variables" are just constant references that point to memory allocated on the stack or on the heap. When you refer to a variable or a ...
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