auto ref and non-templated functions

Zhenya zheny at list.ru
Mon Dec 24 21:34:31 PST 2012


On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 at 01:40:16 UTC, Peter Alexander 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 at 00:56:44 UTC, Peter Alexander 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 17:40:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
>> wrote:
>>> And if that doesn't work, can we simply make it so that the 
>>> compiler
>>> automatically creates a variable when you pass an rvalue to a 
>>> non-templated
>>> auto ref function?
>>
>> I don't see any problems with this, but I admittedly haven't 
>> thought too much about it.
>
> If there are no problems with this way, then what I want to 
> know is why the template version of auto ref wasn't implemented 
> this way. The way auto ref is currently implemented for 
> templates is a bit of a mess.
Maybe it's difficult to generate both versions because for the 
function like this

void foo(auto ref S s1,auto ref S s2,...,auto ref s10)

compiler should generate 2^10 versions of function foo.


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