[eliasmacpherson]

Then "they" later discovered the name was no longer apt and it should have been called ++C.

[yk]

C++ is the correct name, you write a few thousand lines C code and then write class LargeObject in the first line. So C++.

[eliasmacpherson]

I'm concerned that would create a temporary variable, I'll try and decipher the ISO spec to verify. Is LargeObject POD?