Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the term defererencing. There ought to be a better word for following a reference. (This question is of practical interect to me --

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the term defererencing. There ought to be a better word for following a reference. (This question is of practical interect to me -- I'm currently designing a language that has a dereferencing operator deref() and am wondering what better name to give it.)