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In article 87E@cteq07.pa.msu.edu, David Bowser-Chao <davechao@cteq07.pa.msu.edu> writes:
>Looking at the April 1995 working draft proposal,
>the fragment:

>   double& rd2 = 2.0; 

>is deemed illegal (non-const references are not initialized from 
>temporaries) but the GNU g++ 2.7.2 as well as the DEC VMS compiler 
>(current release, don't remember, as well as the version I'm 
>field-testing) allow this statement with a mere warning.

The current draft says the same thing, with the same example.

Some compilers allow such reference binding for compatibility with
old compilers which incorrectly allowed it.

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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com
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