Re: this by rvalue
class X {
std::vector<char> data_;
public:
// ...
std::vector<char> const & data() const & { return data_; }
std::vector<char> && data() && { return data_; }
};
SG wrote:
Interesting. But this is not in line anymore with the current state of
rvalues references. It won't compile without an explicit move:
std::vector<char> && data() && { return std::move(data_); }
Oops! Sorry for spreading outdated information :-0 The paper is from
2005.
You may even want to return the vector by value to avoid a dangling
reference in this case:
X foo();
std::vector<char> const& bar = foo().data();
Then again, defining references to const in this way could be a thing
of the past. I hope people will rely more on copy elision and move
semantics in these cases. :-)
LOL I'll try to ammend my programming style...
But in general you may not want to require that your data is
CopyConstructible (or even MoveConstructible). So you may still want to
have the rvalue-ref-qualified overload of the data() function return an
rvalue reference. Don't you think?
Kind regards, Niels
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