Re: A non-const reference may only be bound to an lvalue?

"George" <George@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Why,

That returned instance of B is not an lvalue - it's a temporary
rvalue.?

I think lvalue is something we can address and rvalue is something we
can not address. The reurn instance of B is a temporary object, I
think an object is addressable and should be lvalue?

No, it's not "addressable" and it's not an lvalue. Specifically, this
doesn't compile:

B* p = &( source() );

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