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Why ‘this’ is a pointer and not a reference?
Is there a good reason that this is a pointer instead of a reference in C++?
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Possible Duplicate:
Why ‘this’ is a pointer and not a reference?
Is there a good reason that this is a pointer instead of a reference in C++?
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thisconcept was introduced before the reference concept was. At the time,thishad to be a pointer.Source