Const ref and rvalues again...

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, November 08, 2012 21:49:58 Manu wrote:
> That's cute, but it really feels like a hack.
> All of a sudden the debugger doesn't work properly anymore, you need to
> step-in twice to enter the function, and it's particularly inefficient in
> debug builds (a point of great concern for my industry!).
> 
> Please just with the compiler creating a temporary in the caller space.
> Restrict is to const ref, or better, in ref (scope seems particularly
> important here).

I honestly wish that in didn't exist in the language. The fact that it it's an 
alias two different attributes is confusing, and people keep using it without 
realizing what they're getting into. If scope worked correctly, you'd only 
want it in specific circumstances, not in general. And since it doesn't work 
correctly aside from delegates, once it _does_ work correctly, it'll break 
code all over the place, because people keep using in, because they like how 
it corresponds with out or whatever.

- Jonathan M Davis