Albin Jose to Programming • 1 year agoWhich programming language is hard to understand?message-square124fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down113
arrow-up161arrow-down1message-squareWhich programming language is hard to understand?Albin Jose to Programming • 1 year agomessage-square124fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•1 year agoA pointer is nothing but an integer that “points to” a memory location. They can feel intimidating because it’s really easy to footgun with them, but they are not as complicated as they appear :)
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkEnglish3•1 year ago The pointer syntax being slightly different than the pointer declaration syntax always confuses me to no end. I conceptually under pointers perfectly but their syntax is wack.
A pointer is nothing but an integer that “points to” a memory location.
They can feel intimidating because it’s really easy to footgun with them, but they are not as complicated as they appear :)