pascal, cdecl, near, far, and huge Modifiers

	Chapter 10 - Using Pointers
	Visual C++ 6: The Complete Reference
	Chris H. Pappas and William H. Murray, III

Copyright 1998 The McGraw-Hill Companies

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	When Should You Use Reference Types?

	To review, there are four main reasons for using C++ reference types:

	•		They lend themselves to more readable code by allowing you to ignore details of how a parameter is passed.

	•		They put the responsibility for argument passing on the programmer who writes the functions, not on the individual who uses them.

	•		They are a necessary counterpart to operator overloading.

	•		They are also used with passing classes to functions so constructors and destructors are not called.

	These concepts are described in greater detail in Chapter 16.

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