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From: konfjo@eua.ericsson.se (Fredrik Jonsson)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: References
Date: 8 Jul 1994 06:14:12 GMT
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In article 773441081snz@mcmen.demon.co.uk, Adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk (Adrian McMenamin) writes:
>Sorry if this is a FAQ but why is it not standard C++ to
>allow the initialisation of a referenceto type foo with
>a function that returns type foo?
>-- 
>Adrian
>Adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk

Do you mean something like this?
 
   class Object { };

   Object setup() { 
      return *new Object;
   }

   int main() { 
      Object& obj = setup();
   }

I haven't verified if there are any violations against the standard in this
particular example but atleast there are no problems when compiling it.

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Fredrik Jonsson