Re: taking address of temporary object

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From	Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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"Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> writes:

> The Holy Standard does not permit using the built-in address operator
> to take the address of a temporary.

Presumably you can call an over-ridden unary & operator?
(which isn't to say that to do so isn't a horrible design decision)

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taking address of temporary object "V.Subramanian, India" <subramanian100in@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-10 05:44 -0800
  Re: taking address of temporary object Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2012-02-10 08:53 -0500
  Re: taking address of temporary object "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 15:08 +0100
    Re: taking address of temporary object Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 17:51 +0000

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