Yeah, that's interesting. I chose pointers because I was looking for a simple metaphor that imperative programmers would understand easily. If you ask random

Yeah, that's interesting. I chose pointers because I was looking for a simple metaphor that imperative programmers would understand easily. If you ask random C programmer how to pass a single thing to a function such that you can both get and set it, pointers are the first thing that most of them will think of.