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From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Overloaded operator dot?
Message-ID: <20205@alice.att.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 13:23:53 GMT
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In article <71650@microsoft.UUCP> jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes:

> Lets be honest,
> some people think C++ shouldn't have had references in the first
> place, but are still fighting a read guard to cripple them now that
> they're in the C++ language.

Without references, the language would need some other way of identifying
copy constructors.  I can think of no other place where referenes are
structurally necessary, though it would be much harder to define
input operators conveniently without them.
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com