# C++ Notes: The Name of the Song

## From Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass

If you have trouble with the difference between objects and pointers to objects, have sympathy for Alice.

> . . .
> 'You are sad,' the Knight said in an anxious tone: 'let me sing you a song to comfort you.'
> 'Is it very long?' Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day.
> 'It's long,' said the Knight, 'but very, VERY beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it--either it brings the TEARS into their eyes, or else--'
> 'Or else what?' said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.
> 'Or else it doesn't, you know. The name of the song is called "HADDOCKS' EYES."'
> 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?' Alice said, trying to feel interested.
> 'No, you don't understand,' the Knight said, looking a little vexed. 'That's what the name is CALLED. The name really IS "THE AGED AGED MAN."'
> 'Then I ought to have said "That's what the SONG is called"?' Alice corrected herself.
> 'No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The SONG is called "WAYS AND MEANS": but that's only what it's CALLED, you know!'
> 'Well, what IS the song, then?' said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.
> 'I was coming to that,' the Knight said. 'The song really IS "A-SITTING ON A GATE": and the tune's my own invention.'
> . . .