Re: how to use C++ references

[Marc Glisse]

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Karl Berry wrote:

>    What is the official way to get a proper '&' in texinfo?
>
> Is the proper one bold or roman, in your eyes?

The bold one looks wrong to me.

> Since C++ is a typed language, unlike Lisp, it seems like @deftypefun
> and @deftypemethod are the proper things to use.  And in that case, the
> & is printed in roman.

In C++, you have constructors that are missing a return type (for a few of 
them I would use the return type slot to put "explicit", but for most of 
them there is simply nothing to put there).

> If that's what you wanted, it seems the remaining question is the extra
> space.  I don't see it.  If you're not using the latest texinfo.tex,
> please try that (you can get it from tug.org:tex/texinfo.tex, among many
> other places).  Unless you meant makeinfo output; I didn't try running
> makeinfo on it.

Yes, I meant the makeinfo output. I didn't even know there was an other 
way to get the output in info format...

> (No question that the whole typed vs. untyped support is suboptimal.)

Thank you for your kind answer,

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Marc Glisse