anything like C++ references?

[Tom Plunket]

Stephen Horne wrote:

>   std::string x = "123";
>   std::string y = x;
> 
>   //  At this point, in most implementations, x and y are bound to the
>   //  same object due to a lazy copy optimisation.

Actually, that isn't the case these days.  I'm sure there are
some who do this optimization still, but it is incredibly hard to
do so in a thread-safe manner so all of the heavies as far as I
know don't do it anymore.

-tom!

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