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Another trait we talked about a little earlier on in this course is copy.

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But now we're able to talk about it a little bit more in depth and as to what is allowed to implement

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a copy.

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Simple types like I 32 that don't own any resources can be a copy type.

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A type is copy if it implements trait, copy and then clone.

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So what we're seeing here.

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Russ is going to allow a type to implement copy only if a shallow byte four byte copy is all it needs.

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This means that any type that owns any other resources, like a heat buffer or operating system handles

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cannot implement copy.

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There are two ways that we can implement a copy.

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We can say derive copy and clone, or we can implement copy for our type.

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In this case it's a struct or then implement clone for our struct.

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Remember though, making a type copy places extra restrictions on our type, so it's important to consider

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the pros and cons prior to doing so.