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		rwbt 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C I think it makes it obvious that the string 's' will be mutated.

aidenn0 6 months ago [–]

The ampersand implies that a value will be written to to me (though it's slightly more complicated because many ABIs are inefficient with structs passed-by-value so it's occasionally used for efficiency there as well).

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