Notation of "A Proposal to Add an Rvalue Reference to the C++ Language"

From:
aitorf666@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 8 May 2008 12:53:43 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<9f60e411-a5b1-4571-9d3d-005432378cd4@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>
Hi,
I have been reading the improvement that will be made to C++0x, and
one of this is "A Proposal to Add an Rvalue Reference to the C++
Language" , which will add a double &, for example:

int someFunction(int && a){ ...

the reason is to allow to change temporaries passed to functions. Due
to:

void f(int& a);
void ff(const int& a);
...
int x = 5;
f(x); //ok
ff(x); //ok
f(2); // error, not to make mistakes
ff(2); //ok

to can pass changeable temporaries, it has been proposed the syntax
int&&, which I thought is naughty.
void g(int&& a){ a = 0; }
g(2); //ok

Would not be better the following syntax? -> instead of int&& ,
mutable int&

The mutable word means "not const", and is used for const member
functions to allow changing values.

I think it has much more logic to:

void f(int& a);
void ff(const int& a){ //perform some task without the possibility of
changing a}
void g(mutable int& a){ a = 0; //for example }

int x = 5;
f(x); //ok
ff(x);//ok
g(x); // better to be an error to avoid silly mistakes
f(2); //error
ff(2); // not an error, but we can=B4t change the value which is we
really want
g(2); //ok, we can do it.

My proposal is to change '&&' for 'mutable &'

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