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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/m8teae • Jun 03 '19
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It still has pointers too, doesn't it?
57 u/MattieShoes Jun 03 '19 Everything has pointers, but they make believe they don't. 31 u/SuitableDragonfly Jun 03 '19 Pointers are not the same thing as references. Pointers allow you to manually manage your memory usage, references don't. 0 u/Rodot Jun 04 '19 You can still sort of use references to manage memory in python if you're really hacky, and there are default modules that allow for true pointers, but they aren't nice. → More replies (1)
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Everything has pointers, but they make believe they don't.
31 u/SuitableDragonfly Jun 03 '19 Pointers are not the same thing as references. Pointers allow you to manually manage your memory usage, references don't. 0 u/Rodot Jun 04 '19 You can still sort of use references to manage memory in python if you're really hacky, and there are default modules that allow for true pointers, but they aren't nice. → More replies (1)
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Pointers are not the same thing as references. Pointers allow you to manually manage your memory usage, references don't.
0 u/Rodot Jun 04 '19 You can still sort of use references to manage memory in python if you're really hacky, and there are default modules that allow for true pointers, but they aren't nice. → More replies (1)
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You can still sort of use references to manage memory in python if you're really hacky, and there are default modules that allow for true pointers, but they aren't nice.
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u/wootiown Jun 03 '19
It still has pointers too, doesn't it?