title: How do you explicitly initialize a reference in c++?
body: <p>I have the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>class SomeClass {};
  
  class SomeOtherClass {
      SomeClass&amp; someObj;
  public:
      SomeOtherClass() {someObj = SomeClass();}
  };
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I get an error on the constructor for <code>SomeOtherClass</code> saying <code>Constructor for 'SomeOtherClass' must explicitly initialize the reference member 'someObj'</code>.</p>
  
  <p>So I guess my question is pretty strait forward. How do you initialize a reference?</p>