C++: A Dialog Programming with the C++ Standard Library

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RAM is an acronym for Random Access Memory. This is the working storage of a computer, where data and programs are stored while we're using them.

Recursion: see recursion.

A reference is an identifier that acts as another name for an existing variable rather than as an independent variable. Changing a reference therefore affects the corresponding variable. In this book, we use references only for passing arguments to functions.

A reference argument is another name for a variable from a calling function rather than an independent variable in the called function. Changing a reference argument therefore affects the corresponding variable in the calling function. Compare with value argument.

The reference-counting idiom is a mechanism that allows ...