Data Types & Type Checking - Ace

Reference Types• C++ includes a special kind of pointer type called areference type that is used primarily for formalparameters:– Advantages of both pass-by-reference and pass-by-value.– No arithmetic on references.• Java extends C++’s reference variables and allows them toreplace pointers entirely:– References are handles to objects, rather than being addresses.• C# includes both the references of Java and the pointers ofC++.Lecture 0644