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In message <49vmsa$ju0@mark.ucdavis.edu> you write:
> I'm using the libg++ String type a lot, and I want to pass it through
> arguments as a reference.  Otherwise, the program has to make a
> complete copy of the thing onto the stack.
> 
> However, sometimes I want to do something like:
> 
> void foo(String &);
> 
> foo("hello");

Hi Dan,
	I think your problem is that you are using "String &" not
"const String &".  "String &" implies that you might change the parameter
being passed.  Since in this case, the parameter is a temporary instance
of String, this is unlikely to be what you want.

	Try "foo(const String &)" and it should be fine.

	Of course, you may need to get cast away the const inside
foo() in order to call SubString operations...

Hope that helps,
Rusty.
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