(13/05/2012 08:56 AM)ProperBritish Wrote:  

Tetris999 Wrote:I mean, google it was usually used for questions that had clear documentation that could be readily found, but now I'm being told to "google it" to find out what something like *& would mean in the parameters of a function.

*& is a pointer to a reference of a variable in memory.

I know that, but I had to keep struggling with the concepts of how something could be a reference and pointer (since a pointer is a reference to a variable), yada yada yada, see where I'm going with this?

Technical terms make no sense to those who are learning them and using them to explain something just makes it worse.