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From: bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: >this< as a reference
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Date: 16 Oct 90 01:09:23 GMT
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rpk@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Robert Krajewski @ MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) writes:

 > Now that there is no need to assign to >this<, wouldn't it have
 > been cleaner if >this< were a reference, and not a pointer ?

Probably, but `this' was invented/introduced about 4 years before references.