On Thursday, August 12, 2010 17:38:28 Graham St Jack wrote: > For me, the key problem is that a class object reference has the same > const/immutable/shared attribute as the object on the heap that it > refers to. This is sometimes what you need, but more often you want a > non-shared, mutable reference to a const/immutable/shared object. > > You can achieve this with pointers for arrays, structs and primitive > types, but not with classes because a class pointer is just a pointer to > a reference.
Hence the hack that is Rebindable!(). Oh, and you _can_ achieve pointers to classes, but what you normally use are references, which do have the problem of not being able to be split between the reference and referent types. - Jonathan M Davis
