i am having a little trouble working with referrences dynamically. this won''t work. does anyone know why? Object& obj = someobject; obj = anotherobject; the value of "obj" does not change. meaning obj still referrences the "someobject" object. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Why not simply use:

Object *obj = someobject;obj = anotherobject; 

Or am I missing something here?

Perhaps what you want are pointers?

Object *obj = &someobject
obj = &anotherobject

i realize i can use pointers. however, i really want to make my classes us references for extra security. like all the java people keep crying about. that''s all. i guess it''s not possible to reinitialize a reference. thanx anyway.

When you declare a variable as a reference, you must point it to another variable that it will reference. This is the only object that the variable can reference. You cannot reset the variable the reference is referencing.

Did that make sense? Basically, once you do this:

SomeObject& objectReference = anotherObject;

You cannot change what objectReference references. It will always reference anotherObject.

Hope that helps.


Josh
http://www.jh-software.com