But also C has a different way to indicate if you want the pointer
or the pointee. Also, a special operator to dereference a structure
pointer, as that happens often enough.

Java has Object reference variables instead of pointers, and
you can't do some things that you can with C pointers. Still,
without any operators, you get the value of the reference and
not the value of the object.

Now, for my actual question from the previous post, can you
pass the pointer value from a function as an actual argument
to a subroutine or another function? As you note, in many
contexts a pointer variable has the value (l-value or r-value)
of the pointee. But maybe not as an actual argument to a pointer
dummy argument.