kruhft said:
I've never understood that if someone can understand that a variable
can hold a value (like in algebra), what the difficulty of
understanding that there can be variables that point to values
is...
In a way same here, I never had troubles with it, but maybe because the
language I learned after BASIC (or next to it) was Z80 assembly :-D.
ld hl, 3000
ld a, 45
ld (hl), a
or something like that
On the other hand, I have explained this to quite some people (pointers,
addresses), and some people get it the first time, and for others it takes
several sessions to explain it. And replace "pointers" with something
else, and I am sure there are things for which I or you (or both) fall in
the latter category :-D.