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on a storage device, or a network address such as a URL.

Formal representation

A reference R is a value that admits one operation, dereference(R), which yields a value. Usually the reference is typed so that it returns values of a specific type, e.g.:interface Reference { T value();}

Often the reference also admits an assignment operation store(R, x), meaning it is an abstract variable.

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