Object Copying
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What is a Shallow Copy?
A shallow copy creates a new object and copies the values of the original object’s fields into it, but for any field that is itself a reference to another obje…
What is a Deep Copy?
A deep copy creates a completely independent duplicate of an object, recursively copying every nested object it references as well, so the original and the cop…
What is a Copy Assignment Operator?
A copy assignment operator is the special member function (in C++, operator=(const T&)) that defines how an already-existing object’s state is overwritten with…