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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.)



I've always thought dataAt(x) would be more correct then dereference(x)




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