https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85958
--- Comment #7 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Jonny Grant from comment #5) > I personally feel "bind" is not a word any programming course teaches, we > say "passing parameters" or "passing arguments". You pass arguments, which initialize parameters. Initialization of references is called binding. > > In addition, I feel we don't think we really need the word "reference" If the parameter type wasn't a reference there would be no problem. Omitting the reason it fails seems unhelpful. > Therefore, I suggest the following: > > $ g++ -o main main.cpp -Wall -Werror -Wconversion > main.cpp: In function ‘int main()’: > main.cpp:11:25: error: cannot pass ‘const int’ to non-const ‘int&’ No this is nonsense. You are not passing something to a reference, you are passing it to the function. The object cannot be bound to the reference because of the cv-qualifiers. I'm keen to make the language clearer, but not by making it simply wrong about what's happening!
