i think that the asterisk should go at the start of the word reference rather than the end
in order to maintain consistency with c
( spacefish bong!, Fri 10 Jul 2009, 10:53, archived)

I've never written anything in C before.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 10 Jul 2009, 10:58, archived)

you're not missing much
imagine if php had a "break everything" command, but it also did really useful things depending on context
( spacefish bong!, Fri 10 Jul 2009, 11:30, archived)