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From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: porting tips for c++
Message-ID: <1198@lupine.NCD.COM>
Date: 15 Aug 90 23:18:23 GMT
References: <943@tcs.tcs.com> <14817@csli.Stanford.EDU> <PCG.90Aug10152935@athene.cs.aber.ac.uk>
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In article <PCG.90Aug10152935@athene.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>
>This is not allowed. Technically a cast is (like) an unary operator (in
>C as in C++, actually in C++ even more), and its result is not an
>lvalue,...

Just for the sake of clarity, I though I should point out that this is *not*
a hard and fast rule.

E&S notes (on page 69):

	"The result of a cast to a reference type is an lvalue; the results
	of other casts are not."
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