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Mutating vs Putating - What's the difference?

mutating | putating |

As verbs the difference between mutating and putating

is that mutating is present participle of mutate while putating is present participle of pupate.

As an adjective mutating

is causing or tending to cause mutation.

mutating

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  • Causing or tending to cause mutation.
    • The mutating process that cells undergo can lead to cancer.
    std::sort is a mutating algorithm.
  • (programming, of an object) Having the ability to make changes to data other than its makeup.
    • The begin() member of std::string returns a mutating iterator.

    putating

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