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by pohl 4420 days ago
the former is restricted to POD types

I had to look this acronym up. In case anybody else needs a definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_Old_Data_Structures

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Within context (the article is for C++ programmers) POD is a commonly used acronym.

If you're a C++ programmer and don't know about POD types (data types with zero implicit C++ behaviors), you should brush up on your fundamentals – it's essential to understand when and why C++ behaviors (i.e. behaviors above and beyond plain C) are invoked implicitly.