Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!andante!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: variable number of args & pass by reference Keywords: C++ stdargs.h reference Message-ID: <8463@alice.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 88 14:29:10 GMT References: <6541@june.cs.washington.edu> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ Lines: 13 In article <6541@june.cs.washington.edu>, sullivan@june.cs.washington.edu (Kevin Sullivan) writes: > My question is: is there any way to have the arguments falling under > the "..." passed as references. Seems like no, but maybe there is > someone out there who knows for sure. You're right -- there's no way to do it. The trouble is that by saying `...' you are disclaiming all knowledge of the types of the arguments. Thus you can't simultaneously say they're references: that would require knowledge of their types. -- --Andrew Koenig ark@europa.att.com