Re: What's the point of references?
Carl Barron wrote:
Earl Purple <earlpurple@gmail.com> wrote:
Joe wrote:
References can extend the life of a temporary. i.e. foo_t & f =
foo(); f can be used until the reference is out of scope.
Not quite, you can only do:
const foo_t & f = foo()
Its perfectly legal without the const. I often use
vector<T,A>::back() to modifiy the last object in a vector,
T & last = some_vector.back();
It is legal, providing foo() already returns a reference, like
std::vector<T>::back() does. But the point was that only references to
const can extend the life of a temporary. Given
foo_t foo();
this:
foo_t& f = foo();
becomes illegal.
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