Actually, I'm wrong. Turns out pointer and caret are subclasses of cursor, and "mouse cursor" is perfectly acceptable to refer to the former. You learn something by being a petty smartass :)
...besides, when I hear the word pointer mentioned within the context of computing, I'm more inclined to think of things like stack pointers and instruction pointers.
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Actually, I'm wrong. Turns out pointer and caret are subclasses of cursor, and "mouse cursor" is perfectly acceptable to refer to the former. You learn something by being a petty smartass :)
...besides, when I hear the word pointer mentioned within the context of computing, I'm more inclined to think of things like stack pointers and instruction pointers.
just wait for the DBAs to come back on this :)