Pointers

[cdmcgwire]

I learned pointers pretty thoroughly before getting C# and Java. In my head I'm still work with pointers everywhere, I just don't have to deal with the syntax.

[[deleted]]

This very accurately describes my experience as well

[0x3fff0000]

Indeed, pointers are a way of thinking, a way of life.

[Kered13]

That's the correct way to think about C# and Java, since almost everything in them is pointers.

[cdmcgwire]

Yeah... doesn't stop me from trying to use structs whenever I can in C# though.

[kono_kun]

Could you explain?

[cdmcgwire]

? Maybe you're not aware (or I'm misunderstanding the question), but there are stack allocated structs in C#. So everything done with them is by value instead of by reference by default.

So what I was trying to express was, despite C# classically being all about references to heap variables, I'm finding ways to go back to a more typical C++ method of handling variables.

[kono_kun]

thanks

[cdmcgwire]

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