Re: Question regarding copy constructor

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D6=F6_Tiib?= <ootiib@hot.ee>
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comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:46:16 -0700 (PDT)
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On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 11:23:47 UTC+3, Juha Nieminen wrote:

?? Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> wrote:

There certainly won't be assignment operators used in initialization. Most
coding standards suggest to write what you actually want 'A a(2);' and
to avoid writing "likely synonymous after optimizations" variants.


Then you get problems like this:

  struct A { ... };
  struct Comparator { bool operator()(const A&, const A&) const { ... } };

  std::map<A, int, Comparator> theMap(Comparator());


Should add double parentheses somewhere:

    std::map<A, int, Comparator> theMap((Comparator()));
 

(Can't see what the problem is? Try calling one of the member functions
of theMap...)


The people who don't see it with bare eye should use -Wvexing-parse of clang.
I'm still thinking that there is powerful enemy rat in standard commission. Every
time they mess with initialisation they add more confusing and ambiguous
syntaxes. The new 'A a{2};' and 'A a = {2};' are screwed up as well.

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