Is there a way to make passing by reference, and passing by value explicit in the function call?

Question

If you were to look at this code,

int x = 0;
function(x);
std::cout << x << \'\\n\';

you would not be able to verify through any me

Answer 1

That is the whole point of pass-by-reference -- that syntactically don't need to do anything different from passing by value.