Looking at the April 1995 working draft proposal,
the fragment:

   double& rd2 = 2.0;

is deemed illegal (non-const references are not initialized from
temporaries) but the GNU g++ 2.7.2 as well as the DEC VMS compiler
(current release, don't remember, as well as the version I'm
field-testing) allow this statement with a mere warning.

This seems like a very basic thing to *fix* - am I missing something
here, is this supposed to be an error, or since April has the committee
changed its mind(s)?
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David Bowser-Chao <davechao@cteq07.pa.msu.edu> writes:

>Looking at the April 1995 working draft proposal,
>the fragment:
>
>   double& rd2 = 2.0;
>
>is deemed illegal (non-const references are not initialized from
>temporaries)

The draft standard does not use the term "illegal".
It uses the term "ill-formed".

>but the GNU g++ 2.7.2 as well as the DEC VMS compiler
>(current release, don't remember, as well as the version I'm
>field-testing) allow this statement with a mere warning.

According to the draft standard, compilers are not required
to issue errors for ill-formed code; they are allowed to issue
mere warnings.

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