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9 Module name: Passing Parameters by Reference

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• Overview
• Motivation
• Topic introduction
• Foundational: Using reference types to avoid copies
• Main: Using references to modify external data
• Advanced
• Module name: Requires Expressions
• Topic introduction
• Meta-error handling: static_assert
• C++ object model: Declarations
• C++ object model: Definitions
• C++ object model: copy semantics