Re: initiailizer_list and static_assert

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Tue, 10 May 2011 18:17:51 CST
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On 2011-05-10 13:15, Marc wrote:

Daniel Kr?gler wrote:

Am 10.05.2011 00:47, schrieb Marc:

Daniel Kr=FCgler wrote:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3231.html

Nice. Adding std::get might make the constexpr tuples more useful, but
it sounds harder too.

What should be harder with a constexpr std::get function? There are
no restrictions to user-code - remember that constexpr functions can
be called with non-constant arguments. In this case they are not
different to a normal function call at all.


It seems like no function involving rvalue references is constexpr
(which makes sense). This includes forward, move, and some overload of
get.


I agree that both std::move and std::forward should really be required to be constexpr.

But if you think it is possible to make the const& overload of
get constexpr, that would be great :-)


It would also make sense to make the non-const overload of the get() template constexpr, because this would allow to propagate reference-constant expressions, e.g.

#include <tuple>

std::tuple<int> ti; // namespace-scope variable
constexpr int& ri = std::get<0>(ti); // #
constexpr int* pi = &ri; // ##

The lines marked with # and ## should also be well-formed, because with the expression 'ti' we are providing a reference-constant expression already (it is an lvalue core constant expression designating an object of static storage duration).

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Kr?gler

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