Does a const reference class member prolong the life of a temporary?
Only local const references prolong the lifespan. The standard specifies such behavior in ยง8.5.3/5, [dcl.init.ref], the section on initializers of reference declarations. The reference in your example is bound to the constructor’s argument n, and becomes invalid when the object n is bound to goes out of scope. The lifetime extension is not transitive through … Read more