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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
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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