<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On 2014–09–13, at 10:24 PM, David Krauss <<a href="mailto:david_work@me.com">david_work@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">So, a good specification would be that a program is ill-formed but no diagnosis is required, if a reference initializer never refers to an object.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>Er, never refers to a well-defined storage location suitable for an object of the given type. References can certainly refer to things that only exist in the future.</div><div><br></div></body></html>