Anti-C++ Hipsters

People who hate C++ are only doing so because it's hip and cool to hate on something that seems too complex at first glance. You want to be seen as cool and edgy, as someone who goes against the grain, when in reality you're just another annoying undergraduate that will probably have a hard time finding a job in the field.

C++ is not perfect, but no language is. Get over it.

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that variable is passed by reference but then thrown away after the call completes

No. The variable doesn't get thrown away after the call completes you fuckwad.

so the rval is automatically cast to an lval which then goes into the function.

Wrong again pee wee. There is neither an explicit nor an implicit cast in that piece of code.