Move-assignment and reference member

Question

Copy-assignment for a class with a reference member variable is a no-no because you can\'t reassign the reference. But what about move-assignment? I tried simply mov

Answer 1

A reference is, in some sense, a T *const with syntactic sugar on top to auto-derefence, auto-capture, and auto-lifetime extend temporaries. (note that this is not quite true, but often is in practice and practicality)

If you want a reseatable reference, C++ has those: they are called pointers. You can use an accessor to replace dereferencing with a function call if you like. The remaining feature (temporary lifetime extension) that is hard to emulate does not apply to struct members.