Re: How = delete would work ?

From:
SG <s.gesemann@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:49:30 CST
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On 9 Feb., 19:52, gute...@gmail.com wrote:

Would I be able to pass a class declared like this:

struct X {
   X(X&) = delete;
   template<class Y>
   X(Y const&) {}

};

by value, like in function as this one:

void f(X x);


How does the function call look like? Overload resolution prefers non-
templates over templates. This is why in case of non-const lvalues the
deleted copy constructor is selected which would result in a
compilation error. For const arguments and/or rvalue arguments the
template-constructor is selected (I think) because these arguments are
not allowed to bind to X&.

   X& source_x_lvalue();
   X&& source_x_rvalue();

   int main() {
     f(source_x_lvalue()); // error, picks deleted X(X&)
     f(source_x_rvalue()); // ok, picks template X(Y const&) with Y=X
     f(42); // ok, picks template X(int const&) with Y=int
   }

@terminator: "=delete" and "&&" are C++0x extensions.

Cheers!
SG

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