That's what I was thinking when reading the article. It almost seems like capturing stack variables by reference should not be allowed at all but that would be

That's what I was thinking when reading the article. It almost seems like capturing stack variables by reference should not be allowed at all but that would be too restrictive. Ultimately the C++ problems have to be resolved by conventions and idioms, just like we've all learned to be careful when passing a pointer to a local variable.