Talk:cpp/language/reference initialization

Sentence "Otherwise, if the reference is an lvalue reference: If object is an lvalue expression, and its type is T or derived from T, and is equally or less cv-qualified, then the reference is bound to the object identified by the lvalue or to its base class subobject." should be editted to express rvalue reference. someone please update this.

this section is covering https://eel.is/c++draft/dcl.init.ref#5.1 which talks about lvalue references. rvalue reference init is discussed in the next bullet point --Cubbi (talk) 07:34, 24 September 2020 (PDT)

What about initializing a non-static class member of reference type? Is that also reference initialization, and if so, does this page need extending?

good catch, I think it should be here even if I am not finding anything specific about references in 12.6.2 (it only talks of member subobjects, which reference members are not) --Cubbi (talk) 06:58, 16 June 2015 (PDT)

added. --Cubbi (talk) 06:56, 2 July 2015 (PDT)

I am wondering about the lifetime extension exception case:

• a temporary bound to a return value of a function in a return statement is not extended: it is destroyed immediately at the end of the return expression. Such function always returns a dangling reference.

I suppose that an example might be:

std::string && foo() { return std::string("bar"); }

Tmcleod (talk) 13:27, 25 April 2016 (PDT)