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Article #646Re: Unitialized dynamic reference
From: Daniel R. Edelson
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 17:29
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 17:29
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In article <1992Nov7.160634.1@vax1.bham.ac.uk> mccauleyba@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley) writes: >In article <1dessbINNn1b@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, daniel@cse.ucsc.edu (Daniel R. Edelson) writes: >> ... is the following illegal? >> >> new (int&) >Yes the type of this expression is `int&*'. There is no such type! >(Because if you try to take the address of reference what you get is the >address of the thing referred to.) This could conceivably be interpreted as returning the address of the referent (just like taking the address of a reference), though I don't think that's a correct interpretation. My point is if this is clearly illegal, some explicit mention should perhaps be made in the draft standard. Daniel Edelson
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!daniel From: daniel@cse.ucsc.edu (Daniel R. Edelson) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Unitialized dynamic reference Date: 7 Nov 1992 17:29:59 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1dguenINNap3@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> References: <1dessbINNn1b@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Nov7.160634.1@vax1.bham.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: oak.ucsc.edu