Even experienced C++ programmers who have prior experience with C tend to use pointers excessively whereas references may be a better choice. Pointers may result in bugs like the following:
bool isValid( const Date *pDate);void f(){ Date *p = new Date(); //default: current date //...many lines of code delete p; //p is now a
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