The design of C++11 started way before 2011, hence articles from 2008. get_pointer() = 1; assigning 1 to a pointer isn't the best idea :P so I think you mea

The design of C++11 started way before 2011, hence articles from 2008. get_pointer() = 1; assigning 1 to a pointer isn't the best idea :P so I think you mean you read int& get_reference(); get_reference() = 1; which is about lvalue references, not rvalue references, and has existed in C++ since the beginning.