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I am enjoying Odin myself but I have to admit, I do wish they kept with * rather than ^.

I know -- it is a personal preference due to my experience with C. On the other end, I understand the change because it is more inspired by Pascal.

Also, the ^ can be used on the left side of the variable (meaning pointer to var) or ^ can be on the right side (dereference pointer to var)

It is using the Pascal usage of ^ -




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