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I am really new to zig, and for the past couple of days have been trying out optionals and allocators. But now, I ran into an issue where I want to pass in an optional pointer to a function, which will then be checked there and assigned a new pointer value. But I am running into an issue where the compiler is complaining about 2 things: first that a var variable is not being mutated in a test (even though I mutate it in a function that I always run), but it's no big deal since I can just reassign a null value to it again in the test.
The second issue is that when running the test, the compiler complains about assigning a new pointer to a const variable, even though I explicitly set the variable as var in the test.
I was wondering where the issue might have been or how I might fix it.
I attached some images of the code, as well as, of the error. In the message below there is also a zig code file.
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