Re: "moveable data type" in comparison with "r-value reference"

From:
howard.hinnant@gmail.com (Howard Hinnant)
Newsgroups:
comp.std.c++
Date:
Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:03:55 GMT
Message-ID:
<howard.hinnant-CA9034.17440823042007@johnf2.biosci.ohio-state.edu>
In article <461e0500$0$79139$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
 "Sylvester Hesp" <s.hesp@oisyn.nl> wrote:

"Richard Smith" <richard@ex-parrot.com> wrote in message
news:gnfTh.824$NZ2.325@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...

Just to correct a couple of typos that crept in. (I copied an old version
of the simple 'string' class into the post.)

    string& operator=( string&& o )
      { string(o).swap(*this); return *this; }


And this needs another invocation of move:

        { string(std::move(o)).swap(*this); return *this; }


Just curious: why must a new (temporary) string be created? Wouldn't
o.swap(*this) suffice? I've read the latest proposed wording (N2118), and I
couldn't find anything about an expression like o.swap(*this) being
ill-formed as o is an r-value reference. As a matter of fact, 5/7
specifically states that, in this case (for the purpose of this function), o
is an lvalue of type string. Am I misinterpreting or missing something?


I believe you are correct Sylvester.

string& operator=( string&& o )
  { swap(o); return *this; }

should do it.

Nice example Richard, thanks.

-Howard

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