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Pointers explained: (europe.pub)
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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Reference values are quite useful, such as:

double valOut;
if (parseDouble(valOut) == 0) { //Argument of parseDouble is ref type, no & needed for input, no exceptions needed for error handling
    [...] //No error, code executed normally
} else {
    [...] //Erroreus input
}