From: daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com   
      
   Am 31.08.2011 23:55, schrieb camster02813@yahoo.com:   
   >     I know i should understand how this code works,   
   > but...............   
   > I see how int "number"  is passed to the function "Factor" after being   
   > input from the keyboard (console)-   
   > However&"squared" and&"cubed"  are passed uninitialized from   
   > main......and every thing does work as it should.   
   > Why dont the uninitialized values cause problems???- simply because   
   > they being passed as references???   
      
   They are not passed as references, but the addresses are taken. Taking   
   the address of an object does not depend on its contents (I ignore for   
   this the possibility of overriding the unary operator&) and the adress   
   of an object is well-defined irrespective of it's contents. There is a   
   different way of looking at the same thing: The function call of Factor   
   requires three arguments with well-defined values. The first argument   
   (number) is well-defined, if the user has indeed provided a character   
   sequence that could be converted into a valid number, the second and   
   third arguments are pointer values which are well-defined, because both   
   squared and cubed have been assigned valid addresses at the point of the   
   call.   
      
   HTH & Greetings from Bremen,   
      
   Daniel Krügler   
      
      
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