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Okay, so now that we understand what a variable is, we can begin to understand what a pointer does. The basic idea of a pointer is that instead of creating a ''new'' variable, we are simply going to ''point'' to a variable that is already stored in the memory. This can have several uses in scripting, and AGS even has some special ones. | Okay, so now that we understand what a variable is, we can begin to understand what a pointer does. The basic idea of a pointer is that instead of creating a ''new'' variable, we are simply going to ''point'' to a variable that is already stored in the memory. This can have several uses in scripting, and AGS even has some special ones. | ||
=Defining A Pointer= | =Defining A Pointer= | ||