Discussion Thread: DIP 1040--Copying, Moving, and Forwarding--Community Review Round 1

[jmh530]

On Friday, 12 March 2021 at 11:47:49 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:
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> The DIP will be fleshed out more. However I should stress that 
> the DIP should be viewed as a piece of legalese rather than a 
> sales pitch as per se - i.e. this isn't the place to be talking 
> about pedagogy

I think Herb Sutter's C++ proposals do a good job of doing both. 
For instance, the metaclasses proposal [1] contains high level 
explanations and simple examples, but also gets into more detail 
(maybe less of the legalese in that particular one though). I 
think the legalese is important, but communicating why the idea 
is important and how it should be used (and useful) in simple 
cases is not something that should be discounted as just a "sales 
pitch" or "pedagogy", IMO.

[1] 
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p0707r0.pdf