What do you do when you want to find the value a pointer points to? You dereference it of course! C++ and Java have their own specific language-lawyer definiti

What do you do when you want to find the value a pointer points to? You dereference it of course! C++ and Java have their own specific language-lawyer definitions of the word reference, but outside of those languages, "reference" is a catch-all term that includes pointers, handles, and indexes.