Re: Verbosity when optimizing with rvalue references

From:
Paul Bibbings <paul.bibbings@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:50:11 +0100
Message-ID:
<87lja4i7to.fsf@gmail.com>
"Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk> writes:

Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet wrote:

* Sousuke, on 24.06.2010 17:23:

The optimizations that rvalue references make possible are nice,
but I'm having one problem with them (rvalue refs): they sometimes
lead to too much verbosity.

When defining a constructor or a setter, you usually take a const
T& and assign it to one of the class's members. In C++0x, you can
additionally define an overload that takes a T&&:

class OneString
{
public:
     OneString(const string& s) : m_s(s)
     {
     }

     OneString(string&& s) : m_s(move(s))
     {
     }

private:
     string m_s;
};

One additional overload is not too much verbosity, but see the two-
argument case:

class TwoStrings
{
public:
     TwoStrings(const string& s1, const string& s2) : m_s1(s1),
m_s2(s2)
     {
     }

     TwoStrings(string&& s1, const string& s2) : m_s1(move(s1)),
m_s2(s2)
     {
     }

     TwoStrings(const string& s1, string&& s2) : m_s1(s1),
m_s2(move(s2))
     {
     }

     TwoStrings(string&& s1, string&& s2) : m_s1(move(s1)),
m_s2(move(s2))
     {
     }

private:
     string m_s1;
     string m_s2;
};

I don't even know how many overloads would there be for 3 arguments
(27 maybe?).

Is there a way to avoid this verbosity?


With the disclaimer that I haven't actually used C++0x rvalue
references, why do you want the ordinary reference overloads? I
thought much of the point was that an rvalue reference could deal
with both cases. Isn't it so?


No, it didn't turn out that way in the end. :-(

Just like temporaries just bind to const lvalue references, lvalues
will not bind to rvalue references.


I think you will find that they will. Try:

   void f(int&&) { }

   int main()
   {
      int i = 0; // lvalue
      f(i);
   }

Regards

Paul Bibbings

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