readonly?

[David Nadlinger]

On Wednesday, 11 July 2012 at 08:56:39 UTC, Artur Skawina wrote:
> On 07/11/12 09:00, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>> Bar b = new Bar;
>> auto b2 = &b; // type of b2 is Bar*
>> 
>> So does it meen, that a pointer of type Bar* does not point to 
>> the real object?
>
> Yeah, unfortunately.
> Can anybody think of a reason to keep the current (broken) 
> behavior?

Why would it be broken? Bar intrinsically is a reference type, so 
Bar* is a pointer to a reference.

David