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Notes about C++
Abstraction Mechanisms, Part 1
Object copying

It is possible to copy objects as part of initializations and in assignments

Plain and simple value semantics is used for objects of class types in C++

  • The C++ Programming Language: Page 229
 

The copy constructor and overloading of the assignment operator can be used to redefine the default meaning of object copying