TM> AT> It is more like syntax sugar to me.
TM> Same for me. It syntactic  sugar,  needed  for  operator  overloadin
TM> useful in many other cases.
TM> AT> Instead  of  writing   *var argument  definition and *var
TM> AT> where you use it, you just write  &var
TM> It's  * const var which replaced by  &var; it's not poss
TM> to modify the target of a reference.
??? Since when? This program works just fine on my system:
#include 
void ModViaRef(int &j);
int main()
{
    int i = 5;
    cout << "i = " << i << endl;
    ModViaRef(i);
    cout << "i = " << i << endl;
    return 0;
}
void ModViaRef(int &j)
{
    j = 10;
}
Regards,
Daniel              ddjones@pinn.net
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