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Old   September 25, 2020, 05:43
Default Understanding the basic of Openfoam programming
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Hello Everyone,



I am a beginner in Openfoam programming and I am trying to understand these lines of code.



psiReactionThermo& thermo = reaction->thermo();



basicMultiComponentMixture& composition = thermo.composition();


What I can not understand is the usage of & and the -> in the codeline.



1. Does & call some functionality thermo of class psiReactionThermo. Or is it defining some kind of variable named thermo and then initializing it with reaction?


2. Further, what does the -> mean?



Could somebody share what they mean?

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Old   September 25, 2020, 06:09
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These are not special features of OpenFOAM programming. Take a look at this:
https://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/611-references/
https://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutoria...nd-references/
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