I am starting to understand the difficulty with ref being too restrictive. Some kind of "const ref" in the language would have helped indeed. But it would probably cause some allocation difficulties for actual constants... or worse?
Search for 'auto ref' or right after 'rvalue references' and read some of the discussions. It's instructive and then you can understand the whole topic maybe a little more. No thread comes to a solution and unfortunately the answer of Walter and Andrei are very very thin on the subject.
