[C++-sig] assign a pointer to global object

[David Abrahams]

on Wed Jul 23 2008, Gennadiy Rozental <rogeeff-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

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> adding boost::ref to the 
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> obj.attr( "aaa" ) = boost::ref( s_global );
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> did resolve the issue, though I am quite confused  why it is required.

Reference semantics is generally unsafe, so we make you request it explicitly.
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