It means anybody using that little function get float doesn't have to worry about what's inside of it. So for example, I decide I want to change the message I print out, I don't have to change the function, I just pass in a different parameter.

这代表着用这个方法去获得浮点数,的任何人都不用担心具体的实现了,例如，如果我想改变下,显示的信息的话，我不必去改变方法，我传个不同的参数就可以了。

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It says, if I want to print out something I built in Cartesian form up here, says, again, I'm going to pass it in a pointer to the instance, that self thing, and then I'm going to return a string that I combine together with an open self and close paren, a comma in the middle, and getting the x-value and the y-value and converting them into strings before I put the whole thing together.

这不仅仅是个列表,它是怎么来做的？,流程是：如果我想要返回,一些已经在笛卡尔模式下建好的值，好，再说一遍，我首先要传入一个,指向实例的指针,也就是，然后我会返回一个,由开括号，闭括号,中间的一个逗号,以及提前转换为字符串格式的。

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X That's just the special symbol in C that says don't pass X, that is don't pass a copy of X. Rather figure out where x is in memory, where he is in that frame and provide swap the numeric address in RAM of that value so that swap can go do anything it wants at that address.

这在C中是一个特殊的符号，指明不传送，也不是传递X的拷贝，而是指出x在内存中哪个地方,它在那个框架中的哪个地方,提供给swap它的地址值,这样swap就可以使用那个地址中的数据。

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