Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> > Int foo = container.size(); // <- gets a *reference*

> No, that initializes an Int named foo to the object returned by 
> container.size. Not a problem.

  And what if you *do* want a reference to the member variable?
You can't?

  (One common situation where you want to do this eg. in C++ is when
you have a big container inside another container and you return
a const reference to the internal container; this way the big internal
container is not needlessly copied, which would be inefficient, but you
can read it directly.)

> You could also introduce const references...not sure if its worth the 
> trouble.

  I think they are useful, as I mentioned above.
  Don't know what would be a practical syntax, though.

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