How do you get bitten by an out-reference?

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Giuseppe D'Angelo <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 9:43 PM
To: Marc Mutz
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Subject: Re: [Development] QTextStream::readLine(0) is an ambiguous overload in 
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On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Marc Mutz <[email protected]> wrote:
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> *Any* form of out parameter is bad code policy. Much better in virtually all
> cases to return multiple values in a small struct.

No, I was simply referring to the specific case of using pointers
instead of references. I've been bitten too many times by
out-references. Then whether we should ban out-arguments is another
story entirely...

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Giuseppe D'Angelo
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