About the syntax of returning by reference

when we return by reference we use &T where T is the variable name but here why is the return type of the function T& ?Here T is a data type of value moreover the position of & is interchanged?

hello @Senjuti256
no we always define reference as datatye &
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when we pass an object or variable by reference as a parameter to a function then we write it as Student &s where s is an object of the Student class. Isn’t it passing by reference

yeah it is passing by refernce
in termplating terms we write something as
T &s; (note: it is T & not &T)