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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cpp should have done ref by default and had & for copy, but here we are.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Cpp should have done ref by default and had & for copy, but here we are.

That would defeat the goal of making it backwards-compatible with C.