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From: patrick@cos.com (Patrick Steranka)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Is this legal?  "T& b_ref(b)"
Keywords: Novice Question, bug?
Message-ID: <24778@cos.com>
Date: 3 Dec 89 03:11:30 GMT
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
Lines: 15

Is the following set of statements legal (where T is any class) ?
    T a;
    T b;
    T& a_ref = a;
    T& b_ref(b);

If so, what does the last line mean?  "T& b_ref(b)"
I was playing around and tried this and the compiler
didn't flag it as an error.  Is it an error?
If not, what does the last line mean?

patrick (Patrick Steranka @ Corporation for Open Systems)
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