Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!kanner From: kanner@Apple.COM (Herbert Kanner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: References Message-ID: <3079@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 25 Jul 89 18:26:45 GMT Organization: Development Systems Group, Apple Computer Lines: 20 I wonder what the formal language rule is which forces the following interpretation on int *&pl; namely: "pl is a reference to a pointer to an integer." What disallows the interpretation int *(&pl); i.e. int pl;? Finally, how about int &*pl; Is pl here a pointer to a reference to an integer? -- Herb Kanner Apple Computer, Inc. {idi,nsc}!apple!kanner kanner@apple.com