Pointers- A beauty of C

3 thoughts on “Pointers- A beauty of C”

1. Could we have an array of references.
   Like this,
   int b,c;
   int& a[]={b,c}

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   1. Declaring array of reference is not allowed.
      You need to understand the objective of declaring an array of reference.
      Referencing is a kind of generating an Alias that refer to the same memory area with two different names.
      Array of references may seems you are interested to refer a same memory area with more than two names which is not required in any practical applications. Reference variable does not occupy a separate memory address but it shares alias memory location.
      Consider a situation when you make three alias for same memory area without using an array
      ex:
      int a,b;
      int &c=a;
      int &c=b; that is you are trying to refer same memory with 3 different names which is not permissible.
      Since this is not allowed then also it does not makes sense to declare like
      int &c[]={a,b}

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2. Thanks I got it.

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