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From: JeanYves.Cras@cediag.bull.fr (Jean-Yves Cras)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Assignments to reference variables
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Date: 19 Sep 90 10:14:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: dfoster@jarthur.Claremont.EDU's message of 18 Sep 90 23:35:22 GMT

I currently have the same problem as you. However, not for the same purpose.
The point is that I want to define a class - say CLASS - and quite a lot
of functions that will receive arrays of references to CLASS as argument.
So I wish I could write:
class CLASS { ... };

void foo(CLASS&* p) { ... } // illegal; wonder why

main()
{
  CLASS tab[10];
  CLASS& tref[3];
  for ( int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
	tref[i] ??????? tab[i*2]; // re_referencing operator 
  f(tref);
}

This doesnot work because
1) Cannot declare pointers/references to references; and
2) lack a re_referencing operator.

Of course, using pointers fixes the problem but...

Anyway, I will certainly not refrain from using your #2 kludge until something cleaner is exhibited !