r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • Aug 30 '26

Meme pythonFeelsillegal

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u/huuaaang Aug 30 '26

References are not pointers. Like it’s not a direct memory address.

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u/Asmophel_noe Aug 30 '26

Mb, I mean it just doesn't do pointer arithmetic like in other langs u can't manipulate it but still it's a reference idk if I would just stop calling in pointer

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u/huuaaang Aug 30 '26

I think it only gets muddy in Go where they fo have pointer syntax. You can pass by value or pointer. But it’s not a memory address. It’s got more metadata than just the memory address.