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james2k
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I'm doing a tiny project in c++ to teach myself, its infuriating. Forgot the pass-by-reference ampersand and spent a full hour trying to figure out why the program took so long...

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  • 2
    Yeah, the cool kids nowadays call it "borrowing" for some reason.
  • 1
    @rantsauce that's because Rust uses that term. It has had to invent some words for the new concepts it introduced.
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    I still do not understand why references in C++ are a thing. They're doing the same thing as pointers, they have almost the exact same behavior except their syntax is different and obscures the fact that the function at hand has side effects.
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