Introduction to C#
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Pointers and references
References in C# can be understood as a very restricted notion of pointers, as known from C programming
Pointers
In normal C# programs: Pointers are not used
All the complexity of pointers, pointer arithmetic, dereferencing, and the address operator is not found in normal C# programs
In specially marked unsafe sections: Pointers can be used almost as in C.
Do not use them in your C# programs!
References
Objects (instance of classes) are always accessed via references in C#
References are automatically dereferenced in C#
There are no particular operators in C# that are related to references
Demonstrations of references in C#.
Output from the reference demo program.
There is no particular complexity in normal C# programs due to use of references
