Originally Posted by
Sebastiani
I'm with Elkvis here. Pointers are fugly. Period. End of debate. :D
Seriously, though, I don't see what all the fuss is about, giving references the same privilages as pointers. The argument that it would be too confusing or dangerous is purely a subjective one. Considering all of the bizarre, error-prone conventions used by programmers that are perfectly *legal*, I hardly think allowing someone a bit of syntactic sugar poses any real threat to safe programming practices.