If you scroll back up on the printout or screen here, you'll see that you can actually not only declare function's prototypes, their general structure.

如果我回滚到打印输出或者这个屏幕，你们将看到你们不仅可以声明函数的原型,它们的一般结构。

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So now, henceforth, when you say, to declare a function, I am declaring a function here but down here am I quote unquote defining it or implementing it.

从此以后，当你说，声明一个函数，我在这里声明了一个函数,但是到这里我定义它或执行它。

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And when you declare a variable, whether as an argument or as literally a local variable, they only live inside of that function.

当你声明一个变量，不论是一个参数,还是一个局部变量，它们只存在函数的内部。

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So A gets 1, B gets 2, now the swap function itself starts executing line by line; so I declare a chunk of memory called temp.

所以A等于1，B等于2，现在swap函数自己开始,一行一行地执行，所以我声明了,叫做temp的一块内存。

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Well, simply with the * notation at least on the way in when you declare the function called swap, you simply say this is not going to take an int and another int because that's useless.

好的，简单说，当你声明一个函数调用swap函数时,使用*符号，你可以简单说，这不能使用一个int数和另外一个int数,因为那是无效的。

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