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Zig's dot star syntax (value.*)
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
Maybe I'm the only one, but it always takes my little brain a split second to understand what's happening whenever I see, or have to write, something like value. *), "follows" the pointer, but now that it's on the receiving end of an assignment, we write the value into the pointed add memory. If you're still not fully comfortable with this, and if you haven't done so already, you might be interested in the pointers and stack memory parts of my learning zig series.
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