Quote: references have no meaning independent of a particular run of a program; cannot be input or output

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[In many high level languages,] an indirect assignment through a pointer, just … confined to the variable explicitly named as the … Unlike all other values (integers, strings, arrays, files, … input as data, and they cannot be output … backing stores, the problems are immense. And on … References are like jumps, leading wildly from one … step backward from which we may never recover. …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: references are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of a data structure to another; change can update any location

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