[boost] Re: 'const T & const' and C++98

2003-04-17 Thread James Curran
Matthew Towler wrote: > int a, c; > int& b = a; > b = c; // error, as attempting to reseat the reference. um.. That's not an error, it just doesn't do what you think it does. It actually assigns the value of c to a. -- Truth, James Curran www.noveltheory.com (personal) www.njtheater.com (pro

Re: [boost] Re: const T & const and C++98

2003-04-17 Thread Joel de Guzman
Reece Dunn wrote: > construct when passing values. This was because I had been looking at > the spirit library and read >T const & ref; > as >T & const ref; To be clear, Spirit's convention is T const& ref. Cheers, -- Joel de Guzman joel at boost-consulting.com http://www.boost-consulti

[boost] Re: const T & const and C++98

2003-04-17 Thread Reece Dunn
Thanks for the responses to my question. My generic list formatting library used the const T & const ref; construct when passing values. This was because I had been looking at the spirit library and read T const & ref; as T & const ref; I then interpreted that in the way pointers and const