Question regarding template instantiation of tempory type
Eljay Love-Jensen
eljay@adobe.com
Mon Nov 15 13:32:00 GMT 2004
Hi Arthur,
If your parameters are constant, then you should put in "T const&" for the
parameter type.
If the parameters are being mutated by the function (indicated by the
absence of const), then temporaries are supposed to generate an error
because mutating a temporary is considered a programming error by the
compiler. (There are a few ways to work around this situation, but it
takes a little more work on the invocation side of the fence, and involves
wrapping the temporary with something that returns a non-const reference to
itself.)
HTH,
--Eljay
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