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by r87 981 days ago
Odin uses ^ because pointers are pointy.
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Also Pascal.

And C++/CLI uses ^ for "managed pointers" (pointer to .net objects) and % for "managed references" which means there are all-together 4 ways to declare various types of pointers which is super-fun.

Asterisks are kinda pointy.