in reply to Re: The Concept of References
in thread The Concept of References
These things are often called name, container and value. Your diagram has them neatly put in columns:
The "variable" label isn't accurate, though, if you also call one of the blocks "variable". And, to more clearly illustrate that an alias is absolutely not a reference, you could consider making the original name and the second name more visually equal:Name Container Value +--------+ Alias: | $alias | ------------+ +--------+ | | \|/ +--------+ +----------+ +---------+ Variable: | $var | ----> | Variable | ----> | Content | +--------+ +----------+ +---------+ /|\ +--------+ +--------+ +----------+ | Reference: | $ref | ----> | Variable | --+ +--------+ +----------+
And I think the content/value part of Reference is missing in your diagram. It does have one, and that is the actual reference! Hard to draw, though.+--------+ __ | $name | \ +--------+ \ +-----------+ +-------+ ====> | container | ----> | value | +--------+ / +-----------+ +-------+ | $alias | __/ +--------+
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Re^3: The Concept of References
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 14, 2005 at 13:31 UTC |
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