🚀 go-pugleaf

tmorgan@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Why? Only I Can Be Me) writes:

> I do something similar to the following:
> class X {
>    int &var ;
> public:
>    constructor that initializes var...doesn't work.
>    destructor
>    rest of functions
>      .
} ;

Ah! Now I understand the problem. You may not initialize the reference in the
constructor, you have to use a constructor-initializer instead. In the above
example your constructor would have to be declared as

   X(int& i) : var(i) { /* do what an X-constructor does */ };

The ARM mentions this in section 12.6.2 and says it is the only way to
initialize nonstatic const and reference members.

Good luck,
        Jan

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             Jan Schiefer, DL5UE, jan@nasobem.stgt.sub.org
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