DIP 36: Rvalue References

John Colvin john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Sat Apr 20 08:41:14 PDT 2013


On Saturday, 20 April 2013 at 15:23:35 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 April 2013 at 15:17:39 UTC, Namespace wrote:
>>> I don't think adding more to the language is the sane thing 
>>> to do right now.
>>
>> Why not? Could you explain this?
>> This issue is discussed since more than a year and it is a 
>> very annoying issue.
>> And even if Walter and Andrei are of this opinion, it would 
>> still only polite when they explain in detail why they think 
>> this.
>
> Listen, this issue is very real, but it is mostly about 
> performance. I'll tell you something : the best performance 
> improvement is the one that bring your program from non working 
> state to working one. And right now, many existing feature are 
> broken.
>
> The let's add whatever feature we have in mind is the very 
> cause of the state of the language right now.

Sadly, I have to agree on this. As nice as many new feature ideas 
are, they are far from priorities when there are multiple core 
mechanics that are broken.


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