Why can't I make a vector of references?

Question

When I do this:

std::vector hello;

Everything works great. However, when I make it a vector of references instead:

Answer 1

Ion Todirel already mentioned an answer YES using std::reference_wrapper. Since C++11 we have a mechanism to retrieve object from std::vector and remove the reference by using std::remove_reference. Below is given an example compiled using g++ and clang with option
-std=c++11 and executed successfully.

#include 
#include 
#include

class MyClass {
public:
    void func() {
        std::cout << "I am func \n";
    }

    MyClass(int y) : x(y) {}

    int getval()
    {
        return x;
    }

private: 
        int x;
};

int main() {
    std::vector> vec;

    MyClass obj1(2);
    MyClass obj2(3);

    MyClass& obj_ref1 = std::ref(obj1);
    MyClass& obj_ref2 = obj2;

    vec.push_back(obj_ref1);
    vec.push_back(obj_ref2);

    for (auto obj3 : vec)
    {
        std::remove_reference::type(obj3).func();      
        std::cout << std::remove_reference::type(obj3).getval() << "\n";
    }             
}