"Pointer" redirects here. For other uses, see Pointer (disambiguation).

[lost1ntwilight]

I just look up 'pointers' on Wikipedia for a refresher, as I usually code in C#.

This is what it said. Pay particular attention to the text in red.
Pointer (computing)

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*laughs and laughs

Comments

[mechagojira]

hahahaha

[syntheticmuse]

that's really cute. ;-)
s.

[cryptor_00]

ok, now i feel stupid o_0

what is funny here?

[luci_fer]

I'm with J, I don't quite get it. Take pity on us scientist and let us in on the joke.

(J, I guess you're a "kind" of scientist ^_^)

[lost1ntwilight]

In computing, a pointer is something that points to another memory location. When you dereference it, you are redirecting to the value in that location.

[luci_fer]

....okay. I guess that makes sense, it's like a foreign language to me, but sounds really cool

[minion82]

Even with the explanation, it still doesn't quite make sense to me.

[erikpet35]

Reminds me of the gag

Recursion
Definition: See recursion

:)