properties as lvalues

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Daniel Keep" <daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:e49krb$1eih$2 at digitaldaemon.com...
> One of the weird things I remember about VB6 was that it would allow you
> to pass an intermediate value ByRef to another function.  Imagine my
> surprise when I starting playing with "real" programming languages like
> C++, and absolutely none of them were capable of this.
>
> I never really understood why it was seemingly so hard to implement.
> After all, even if it *is* an intermediate value, it's got to be stored
> somewhere in memory, right?

I think this was discussed last month or so, with the suggestion to allow 
operator overloads for temporary values.  I think it was reported as a 
suggestion on BugZilla as well.