I use them now and then -- and I never touch templates. It's just a reference you can reassign. Or, in other words, truly a pointer that can't be null. :D (And

I use them now and then -- and I never touch templates. It's just a reference you can reassign. Or, in other words, truly a pointer that can't be null. :D (And that you can actually use in collections that require reassignable types.)