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In article <BxLyv1.CG4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
   >You might claim that "reference" (or "ref") is just "pointer" spelled
   >sideways, but there is no "address of" operation, no "indirect"
   >operation, and hence no EXPLICIT pointer operations at all in the
   >language.

   But how does the hardware do it efficiently?

Who cares, as long as it does?

   Probably with pointers, because the hardware only calls by reference.

So what?  If the compiler does the correct and most efficient thing,
why should I care how it does it.  If the quality of the compiler is a
problem, get another one.  If that doesn't work, write in assembler.
If the syntax isn't all that great, use a macro processor to create
hide some of the worst parts.  Note this is not an invitation to
complain that you can't find a macro processor that will let you
invent your own syntax.

bevan