Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct)

On 2025-05-03, Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> wrote:
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If it is legal, then why isn't it used more often?  Is it a readability/
maintainability issue, or is it something else?

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It's not used more often because
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- programmers are irrationallyafraid that there will be lots of
  overhead when the structure gets large.
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  (In fact, passing large structs by value is implemented
  using a hidden pointer;  a copy is not made unless the calee
  modifies the parameter.