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From: Sylvain Laperche <grim7reaper@mani.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Scanner library Ada binding?
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 13:36:27 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-10-28, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:08:38 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Leake
><stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> declaimed the following:
>> It was a frustrating experience. The sample code uses C++ syntax that I could
>> not find definitions for (I think "^" is some variant of pointer). The
>> Microsoft code documentation makes the Google Android docs
>
> C++ or C#?
>
> In C/C++, ^ is a bit-wise Exclusive Or... And apparently the same for C#

I think the sample code was using C++/CLI[1] instead of real C++.
In this "language", ^ represent a kind of garbage-collected pointer[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CLI
[2]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yk97tc08.aspx