Assignment operator with reference class member

Question

As long as new issues are growing out of my previous question Overloaded assignment operator causes warning about recursion, I was legitimately urged to post this as new one

Answer 1

It is really a hack over c++ design, but you can use placement new on 'this' to do that. I.e.

MyClass::MyClass(ReferenceType& referenceTarget):
    myReference(referenceTarget)
{}

MyClass& MyClass::operator=(const MyClass& other)
{
    new (this) MyClass(other.myReference);
    return *this;
}