A plaster cast is a copy of a sculpture, which is cast in plaster. A plaster cast can accurately reproduce the details of the original sculpture, but is usually much less durable. It is often used as a stage in the casting process.
Concatenate Strings in C#: + Operator vs. String.Concat vs. StringBuilder. In the source code of almost any software application individual strings are concatenated into one string. To implement a string concatenation is thus something absolutely rudimentary and should belong to the repertoire of every software developer. In C# there are several options available to connect strings.
In C and C++, & means call by reference; you allow the function to change the variable. In this case your variable is a pointer to myStruct type. In this case the function allocates a new memory block and assigns this to your pointer 'data'. In the past (say K&R) this had to be done by passing a pointer, in this case a pointer-to-pointer or **.