And it's nothing new with move/copy semantics either. Even passing by reference is bad for hiding that. Every time I write C++ I'm tempted to take pointers as p

And it's nothing new with move/copy semantics either. Even passing by reference is bad for hiding that. Every time I write C++ I'm tempted to take pointers as parameters in places where you'd normally take a reference just so the call site has an indication of what I'm doing.