Pointers in C++

Pointers in C++ are a major conceptual stumblingblock. Lippman's book was very confusing on this. And even Bruce Eckel left me confused. My third resource, C language tutorial, by Juan Soulié finally gets it right explaining C++ pointers.

This following simple paragraph made all the difference in the world clarifiying the declaration of a pointer [e.g. int * mypointervariable ] versus using a pointer variable to access the value of the variable being pointed to [e.g. variable2 = *mypointervariable] or loading an address into a pointer variable [e.g. mypointervariable = &addressOfVariable] made all the difference in the world!

I emphasize that this asterisk (*) that we put when declaring a pointer means only that: that it is a pointer, and does not have to be confused with the reference operator that we have seen a bit earlier and that is also written with an asterisk (*). They are simply two different tasks represented with the same sign.

Thanks Juan Soulié!