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in reply to Re^2: The Concept of References
in thread The Concept of References

One could argue that a pointer in C, e.g. to a struct tm, knows what it points to, so that you can write: 
  struct tm *p = &data;
  localtime(p);
  printf("Year: %d\n", p->tm_year);

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which, assuming you have a hash filled with the very same parameters, resembles $p->{'tm_year'} very much.

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