I believe the two terms, reference and pointer, are equivalent. By the 
way, In Java, they call it reference also, I think.
--Ahmed
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Patrick Hall wrote:

> Hi pholks,
> 
> It's taken me a while to wrap my head around
> references, since I thought they were always
> Perl-specific. (At least, the term 'reference' doesn't
> show up in K&R!)
> 
> Anyway, it finally occurred to me that the term
> 'reference' might just be Perlish for what other
> languages (C, I'm thinking) call a 'pointer'... Am I
> totally out of wack? 
> 
> Is the distinction in the docs somewhere that I could
> read about a bit?
> 
> -Patrick
> .....
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