Re: Reference to void
On 27 Oct 2006 10:37:52 -0400, Lucian Radu Teodorescu wrote:
Indeed, this reference to void ideea doesn't help too much. Again,
let's take a piece of code:
<code>
void f1()
{
auto& obj = f();
// A lot of code folllows...
}
void f2()
{
void& obj = f();
// A lot of code folllows...
}
</code>
If you take the first look in f1() you don't know what happens to the
result of the function call. You may rush to say that obj will be
accessed in the code that follows. But this is not necessarly the
intent. One can only want to extend the scope of the object returned by
function call.
In that case I'd want a syntax which didn't involve any name.
Something like
auto = f();
or similar (the "auto" here isn't to deduce type; it just signals that
you want automatic storage duration).
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