Analogies
- References can be thought of as "Symbolic links" in file system terminology. Symbolic links can be modified as though they were the file they were linked to and when a symbolic link is deleted the original file remains. Similarly, references can be deleted (whether by going out of scope or explicitly being removed if they were allocated in heap) and the original object that was referenced remains.
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