Reference initialization in C++

Question

Greetings, everyone!

Examining my own code, I came up to this interesting line:

const CString &refStr = ( CheckCondition() ) ? _T(\"foo\") : _T(\"bar         


        

Answer 1

This is completely legal. Either this finishes successfully and the reference is bound to a valid object or an exception is thrown and control is transferred outside the block and the reference is no longer in scope so noone cares of it anymore.