This needs to be fixed - ref

[Nick Treleaven]

On Thursday, 29 August 2024 at 02:29:21 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> I've heard that C++ references are a complete swamp of special 
>> cases (regardless of lvalue vs rvalue reference).
>>
>
> You've "heard"? I'm sorry, but your qualification to comment on 
> the topic is definitely problematic from here on...

Herb Sutter:

> References are for parameter passing, including range-for. 
> Sometimes they’re useful as local variables

https://herbsutter.com/2020/02/23/references-simply/

And in Herb's C++2 project, references are not part of the type. 
There is `inout`, which is a parameter storage class, like D's 
`ref`, and like all modern languages I can think of.