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Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:44:00 -0000
Subject: Re: Is this code wrong?
From: Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com>
To: John Fine <johnsfine@verizon.net>
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Hi John,

The style that you indicated...

Foo ReturnAFoo()
{
  Foo foo;
  return foo;
}

void DoSomething()
{
  Foo const& foo = ReturnAFoo();
  foo.AreYouStillHere(); // Yep, still here.
}

...is good.

The temporary returned by ReturnAFoo in DoSomething is bound to the
reference.

It won't be destructed until the reference goes out of scope.  Really.

I use that style often.

(Although I can't cite chapter+verse of ISO 14882.)

HTH,
--Eljay