Re: More keyword abomination by C++0x
In article <49f709bd$0$2485$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk>,
"Chris Morley" <chris.morley@lineone.net> wrote:
"Nevin :-] Liber" <nevin@eviloverlord.com> wrote in message
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In article <49f5e038$0$2539$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk>,
"Chris Morley" <chris.morley@lineone.net> wrote:
What _problem_ do
references even solve?
If you didn't have references, what would you return from operator=(),
operator++(), etc.?
Could have been done with pointers, but wasn't so doesn't really matter ;)
mytype* operator=(const mytype* Rhs) { ...; return this;}
Would have worked equally as well.
Then how does the expression:
a = ++b;
work?
Combining two separate concepts (pointer and dereferenced pointer, which
is what you seem to be trying to do) almost always turns out to be a bad
idea.
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