Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: reference parameters for overloaded operators Message-ID: <26CBE285.4EC2@tct.uucp> Date: 17 Aug 90 12:26:45 GMT References: <1990Aug13.144540.7804@ctk1.UUCP> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 6 According to chris@ctk1.UUCP (Chris Old): >When should one use references rather than passing by value to >overloaded operators? I have found references useful as parameters when the objects passed as parameters cannot be copied cheaply (or at all).