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While each of these is not wrong in isolation, together they are. If we are talking about data stored on the heap that last bit is not true. Types that hold a raw pointer cannot be made
Copy. Only simple types can be made Copy, ones that don't own any non direct data and as such can be stored on the stack and simply memcpyed to get a copy.