Re: Can a temporary be assigned to itself?
On 3/22/2013 8:52 PM, ?? Tiib wrote:
Object should remain in sane state if anything throws exceptions
during assignment. Sole imaginable sane state is "like it was before".
That is strong XG, can be done too at about the same amount of code but
some increased resource cost at runtime. I don't agree that strong XG is
the only sane way but that is up to opinion in general -- and detailed
design at a particular instance, so we should not debate it. :)
....
Lot of non-polymorphic classes may have constant or reference or
unique_ptr or auto_ptr or boost::scoped_ptr or naked pointer
non-static members. These classes should be made explicitly copyable
or movable if one wants them to be in vector or deque or the like.
I have a full suite of smart pointers: NC, DC, transfer and shared,
certainly if I want a copyable object I use a the DC variant over
anything else. IMO same applies to any resource handler. (btw the said
pointers are policy-based so it's easy to use them for any kind of
resource; I recall a few times using fake-copy that was okay for the
case).
IME starting to hand-craft an op= is the last resort and is a ticked for
more easy-to-break maintenance too.
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