In-Reply-To: <97E47D90-1A3F-11D9-BF1C-003065D18932@twcny.rr.com> hinnant@twcny.rr.com (Howard Hinnant) wrote (abridged):

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The second is a container of values which may be polymorphic. It would be a more-or-less drop-in replacement for vector<T>. It would not allow nulls, and the syntax would be like v.begin()->method(). Although it would probably use pointers behind the scenes, that would be an implementation detail not revealed by its interface.

I.e. a vector<T&> ?

That might be a reasonable syntax, yes. -- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK