Doubt in question 5

[tejasddongare (Tejas Dongare)]

Q­5 Why reference is not same as a pointer?

A) A reference can never be null.

B) A reference once established cannot be changed.

C) Reference doesn’t need an explicit dereferencing
mechanism.

D) All of the above.

sir i understood all points except C why is point c is also true?

[pratyush63 (Pratyush Kumar)]

Pointer variable stores address. To dereference it(to access the bucket value) we need a dereference operator (which is * ).
But reference variable is just a copy of another variable. You do not need any dereference mechanism to access its value.