Document that non-IR units are passed by non-const reference instead of pointer in...

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 ## Style guide
 
-MLIR follows the [LLVM style](https://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html) guide
-except:
+MLIR follows the [LLVM style](https://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html) guide.
+We also adhere to the following, that deviates from, or isn't specified in the
+LLVM style guide:
 
 *   Adopts [camelBack](https://llvm.org/docs/Proposals/VariableNames.html);
+*   Except for IR units (Region, Block, and Operation), non-nullable output
+    argument are passed by non-const reference in general.
 
 ## Pass name and other command line options