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From: turner@sdti.SDTI.COM (Prescott K. Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: references in aggregates
Summary: no array of reference
Message-ID: <457@sdti.SDTI.COM>
Date: 12 May 89 16:09:00 GMT
References: <4569@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>
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In article <4569@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>Is it possible to declare an aggregate containing references?
>Something like
>	Class& vec[] = ???  
>is what I had in mind, but don't see how to make the initializations
>work out.

Arrays of references are not allowed.  But a reference can be a member of
a class, just initialize it in the base/member initializer.
        int n;
        class C {
           int & intref;
           C () : intref (n) {}
           };
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