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From: ngo@tammy.harvard.edu (Tom Ngo)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: What is int &volatile r; [Was: What is int &const r;]
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Date: 18 Apr 91 02:42:14 GMT
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I wrote:

>Here's an interesting C++ statement.  What does it mean?
>    int &const r;
>Hopefully your answer is that it is illegal and/or meaningless.  If

Harald Fuchs replied:

Fuchs> A reference is always constant, so "int&const r" is just a more
Fuchs> verbose alternative to "int& r". Why bother with explicitly
Fuchs> disallowing redundancies?

OK, I can accept that.  But what is "int &volatile r"?

--Tom
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