I know it looks like a simple and silly little example, but at the moment, I still have the ability to go in and change the values of the parameters by that little definition.

很简单的有点儿蠢的例子,但是现在，我还是可以通过，一个简单的定义声明，来进去改变参数的值,这样就没意义了,这是因为我并没有用一些。

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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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