A Laboratory Course in C++, 5th Edition

reference parameter a formal parameter that receives the location (memory address)

of the caller’s actual parameter

reference type a simple data type consisting of an unbounded set of values, each of

which is the address of a variable of a given type. The only operation defined on

a reference variable is initialization, after which every appearance of the variable

is implicitly dereferenced

refinement in top-down design, the expansion of a module specification to form a

new module that solves a major step in the computer solution of a problem

relational operators operators that state that a relationship exists between two

values; in C++, symbols that ...