Re: std::string reference initialized with string literal

From:
"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sun, 4 Mar 2007 06:10:48 CST
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<1173002802.365778.51080@c51g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 3, 6:54 pm, "Daniel Kr?gler" <daniel.krueg...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

On 3 Mrz., 15:59, "James Kanze" <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:

Something like:
    char const& mystring[ 12 ] = "Hello world" ;
would work, though. (At least, I think it would.


I guess that should be written as:

char const (&mystring)[ 12 ] = "Hello world";


Yes. I don't know what I was thinking of.

or does there exist a syntactic trick which works
without parentheses in this situation?


typedef's:

     typedef char const String12[ 12 ] ;
     String12& myString = "Hello, world" ;

(Untried, but I think it should work.)

A temporary is created. There are a few special cases where the
lifetime of a temporary is extended: when a reference is
initialized with a temporary, the lifetime of that reference is
extended to the lifetime of the reference.


Just nitpicking, because I know you are aware of it:

"[..] the lifetime of that *temporary* is extended to the lifetime
of the reference"


Yes. It's actually a typo in my text: extending the lifetime of
the reference to the lifetime of the reference doesn't mean
anything.

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