Why not non-const reference to temporary objects? [duplicate]

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The original case for not allowing references to temporaries was for function parameters. Suppose this was allowed:

void inc(double& x)
{ x += 0.1; }

int i = 0;
inc(i);

Why isn’t i changed?

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