AT> It is more like syntax sugar to me. 
Same for me. It syntactic  sugar,  needed  for  operator  overloading,
useful in many other cases.
AT> Instead  of  writing   *var argument  definition and *var
AT> where you use it, you just write  &var
It's  * const var which replaced by  &var; it's not possible 
to modify the target of a reference.
Thomas
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