Not Const Temporaries

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May  3, 2001, Philippe Cizaire <pci@silicomp.com> wrote:

> BTW, I still do not understand how I can not have a const reference to a
> temporary but a can call a non const method on it... :-)

That's a rule from the C++ Standard.  The intent, as far as I
understand, is to prevent accidental binding of a temporary to a
non-const reference, while still making it possible to intentionally
do it.

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