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If a type wishes to have value semantics, and it needs to store objects that are dynamically allocated, then on copy operations, the type will need to allocate new copies of those objects. It must also do this for copy assignment. This kind of copying is called a "deep copy". It effective...

A type has value semantics if the object's observable state is functionally distinct from all other objects of that type. This means that if you copy an object, you have a new object, and modifications of the new object will not be in any way visible from the old object. Most basic C++ types have v...