On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The temporary returned by ReturnAFoo in DoSomething is bound to the > reference. > > It won't be destructed until the reference goes out of scope. Really. > > I use that style often. > > (Although I can't cite chapter+verse of ISO 14882.) 12.2.5 - it is a long paragraph explaining the lifetime of the temporary bound to a reference. corey